#HUNGARY: Leftist, Right-Leaning Parties To Unite Against Ruling Fidesz Party For Municipal Elections

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Several very different opposition parties will work together, fielding single candidates in three important municipal elections in October.

The disparate parties, which include the Hungarian Socialist Party, the liberal Democratic Coalition Party, the Left-leaning Politics Can Be Different Party, the Momentum Party, and the Right-leaning Jobbik Party, have struggled to come together in the past, but opposition to the ruling Fidesz Party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Pictured: Adam Mirkoczki of the Jobbik Party, who will run for mayor as part of an opposition unity ticket.

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#HUNGARY: Socialists Choose Popular Mayor To Run As PM In 2018

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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.