Hungary: anti-Orban alliance leads ruling party in 2022 election poll
Source: The Guardian
Hungary: anti-Orbán alliance leads ruling party in 2022 election poll
Six-party grouping ahead by four points after choosing Péter Márki-Zay as prime ministerial candidate
Jon Henley Europe correspondent
@jonhenley
Thu 28 Oct 2021 13.30 BST
A six-party opposition alliance that aims to topple Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in elections next year has pulled four points clear of the authoritarian prime minister’s Fidesz party after electing a common leader, according to an opinion poll.
The poll, published late on Wednesday, 10 days after the alliance chose a small-town mayor, Péter Márki-Zay, as its prime ministerial candidate, showed support for the united opposition at 39%, compared with 35% for Fidesz and 23% who were unsure.
Orbán, whose combative brand of national conservatism has transformed Hungary’s political and institutional landscape since 2010, will face a united front of normally squabbling opposition parties for the first time since he came to power.
The alliance of socialists, social democrats, greens, liberals and former far right parties will field a single joint candidate in all 106 of Hungary’s constituencies, targeting what they argue is the regime’s corruption, hypocrisy and advancing authoritarianism.
Previous attempts to unseat Orbán have been driven mainly by a big-city liberal elite, but the ideologically diverse alliance hopes to capitalise on growing dissatisfaction with the prime minister in his conservative rural heartland.
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