Author: Wilfred Silva

Opposition candidate for prime minister Péter Márki-Zay poses for a selfie with supporters The conservative small-town mayor Péter Márki-Zay has won the primary of Hungary’s united opposition. And he has a good chance of beating Orbán Small-town mayor Péter Márki-Zay won the run-off election of the first ever Hungarian opposition primary that ended on 17 October. MZP – that is his nickname in Hungarian public discourse – obtained 371,560 votes against Member of European Parliament Klára Dobrev’s 283,677 votes. He will be facing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in next spring’s…