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Hungary's opposition parties the DK, Jobbik, LMP, Momentum, the Socialists and Párbeszéd launched a website for their autumn primary elections.

Former Minister of First Orbán Gov’t to Run in Opposition Primary Magyar Hangreports. The center-right ÚVNP was founded in October of last year. The party’s goal is a change of government and political direction in Hungary in 2022. During the opposition primaries, they want to address the “civic” side, disappointed Fidesz supporters, and undecided voters. Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences József Pálinkás, who was also the Minister of Education during the first O...

The new party Civic Answer (Polgári Válasz), founded by Janos Bencsik, a former Jobbik lawmaker, will run its own national list and field individual candidates in every electoral district in the general election next spring. “Recent developments [in Hungarian politics] have made it clear that Christian conservative values are not represented in politics at all,” Bencsik, who was the leader of Jobbik’s Budapest chapter, said in a statement. MP and Jobbik’s Budapest president János Ben...