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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 decade in power. We can only win together, Marki-Zay told a crowd of cheering supporters, accompanied b...

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.