The Hungarian Socialist Party has named the 43-year-old mayor of Szeged, László Botka, as its candidate for prime minister in the next parliamentary elections, expected in April 2018. Mr. Botka was merely 29 years old when he was first elected as mayor of Hungary’s third largest city in 2002 and he has since been re-elected three times. In the most recent 2014 municipal elections, Mr. Botka won in a landslide victory against his Fidesz opponent, beating him by 22 percent.
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