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For critics of Viktor Orban, Peter Magyar may well personify the corruption rife under the years of rule by the nationalist Hungarian prime minister. Now the former insider has recast himself and vowed to bring down Orban, drawing huge crowds to protests in Budapest.

The populist prime minister, a hero to many American conservatives, has changed voting rules and legalized ‘voter tourism’ as he stands for re-election

Hungarians go to polls on April 3 to choose between ‘more autocratisation or re-democratisation’, analysts say.

PM Viktor Orban and his challenger adjust their campaign focus to reflect the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Even optimistic insiders only give six-party coalition 40% chance of victory in election

Peter Marki-Zay has unexpectedly won the opposition primary | Europe

HUNGARY-ELECTION/OPPOSITION (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV):UPDATE 2-Outsider Marki-Zay looks poised to win Hungary opposition run-off

HUNGARY-ELECTION/OPPOSITION (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV):UPDATE 2-Outsider Marki-Zay looks poised to win Hungary opposition run-off

By Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Small-town conservative Peter Marki-Zay, a political outsider with no party affiliation, will go head-to-head with Prime Minister Viktor Orban next year for leadership of Hungary after on Sunday winning an opposition run-off primary. Marki-Zay defeated leftist Klara Dobrev, who pledged to support him at the head of an alliance of six opposition parties that, in the 2022 parliamentary election, will bid to oust Orban after more than a dec...

Hungarians will choose between leftist European lawmaker Klara Dobrev and conservative "outsider" Peter Marki-Zay in a primary this weekend to lead an unprecedented joint opposition bid to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orban in 2022 elections.