peter marki zay, in south eastern hungary, welcome to hardtalk. well, nice to have you. nice to be on your show. it s great to have you on the show. ijust called you a small town mayor with very big ambitions . do you think that s fair? and if it is fair, how do you persuade hungarians that you have what it takes to be the nation s leader? well, hopefully, my experience as a mayor of a town of a4,000 inhabitants qualifies me, since hodmezovasarhely, my town, has been a fidesz stronghold for 30 years before our victory here or, actually, two of our victories here. hodmezovasarhely represents more the average hungarian
companies. so, just the practice, the experience in leadership helps me manage a small town, but also helps me make compromises, helps me deal with people, manage different groups of people. also convince voters, of course, i already have the experience here locally, during two elections, and the third was the national primaries, where i was the unexpected winner by being able to convince people that i will change the three decades old habit of corruption and power games. as you say, you came from behind in this primary process to find a united opposition candidate. i think it s fair to say it was a bit of a surprise to many that you came through in the end. itjust surprises me that you made a deliberate comparison with donald trump. surprising because, you know, we ve seen what happened to donald trump, both in power and in the leaving of power, and it s odd to me that
the experience in leadership helps me manage a small town, but also helps me make compromises, helps me deal with people, manage different groups of people. also convince voters, of course, i already have the experience here locally, during two elections, and the third was the national primaries, where i was the unexpected winner by being able to convince people that i will change the three decades old habit of corruption and power games. as you say, you came from behind in this primary process to find a united opposition candidate. i think it s fair to say it was a bit of a surprise to many that you came through in the end. itjust surprises me that you made a deliberate comparison with donald trump. surprising because, you know, we ve seen what happened to donald trump, both in power and in the leaving of power, and it s odd to me that you would compare yourself to him for that reason,