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Peter Marky-Zai attracts a wide variety of voters in Hungary
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Peter Marki-Zai is a conservative, Catholic and father of seven. The majority voted for him in the primaries.
In Hungary, six opposition parties have nominated a single candidate for future parliamentary elections. The non-partisan conservative Peter Marki-Zai won 57% of the vote in the second round of the primaries, ahead of Social Democratic candidate Clara Dobrev. This was announced on Monday, October 18, by the Hungarian election commission. Marki Zai will be Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s main rival in the 2022 election.
Such primaries were held in the country for the first time. Prior to that, six parties – from the Green Left to the Conservative Right – were in constant confrontation. The turnout for the primaries, which started last month, exceeded all expectations. 630,000 citizens voted in the first round, another 660,000 in the second.
“This is a revolution of the common people,” Marki-Zai said earlier. Only by uniting, he added, will the opposition be able to remove “the most corrupt government in the past 100 years.”
49-year-old Peter Marki-Zai is the mayor of his hometown small Hungarian town of Hodmezevasarhei. He is a Catholic conservative and the father of seven children. According to experts, he can attract conservative voters who are no longer satisfied with Orban’s rule. At the same time, Marki-Zai does not scare away the inhabitants of big cities, who have more left-wing views, since his conservatism is combined with openness to the world, tolerance and the ability to compromise.
Let us remind you that in the parliamentary elections opposition coalition won in the Czech Republic Together (SPOLU), which was made up of three center-right parties.
A source: Deutsche Welle Russian Service
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