Márki-Zay on CNN: “We Now Have the Highest Chance in a Decade to Defeat Orbán” On Wednesday evening, Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition's candidate for prime minister, gave a live interview to CNN. Christiane Amanpour asked... 2021.10.21.
Press Roundup: Márki-Zay Wants a Base in Future Parliament A conservative columnist believes new fault-lines may appear within the opposition as their newly elected candidate for Prime Minister asks... 2021.10.21.
Márki-Zay Eyes Separate Parliamentary Group for his Movement and Civilians After winning the primaries, the joint opposition's prime minister candidate confirmed that he wouldn't turn his movement into a party.... 2021.10.20.
Press Roundup: Outsider Márki-Zay Wins Opposition Primary In their first comments after Péter Márki-Zay’s victory was announced late on Sunday night, left-liberal commentators think his unexpected success... 2021.10.20.
Dangers and Possibilities- Political Analysts’ Take on Péter Márki-Zay’s Chances What are the chances and what is the potential Achilles heel of the joint opposition's freshly-elected prime ministerial candidate and... 2021.10.19.
Fidesz Modifies Petition Campaign to Focus on Primaries Winner Márki-Zay Hungary's ruling Fidesz is making changes to its anti-Gyurcsány signature drive launched in September to put more focus on Péter... 2021.10.19.
Reactions to Márki-Zay Winning Primaries: Beginning of a New Chapter vs. Gyurcsány’s Fake-Right Candidate Péter Márki-Zay has been elected by a significant majority to lead the opposition alliance against Viktor Orbán and Fidesz-KDNP in... 2021.10.18.
Orbán to Continue as President? Press Chief Dismisses Media Reports "Fake news, we're not bothering with it," the prime minister's press secretary said in response to media reports that Viktor... 2021.10.18.
Primaries Site Suffers Another Overload Attack on Last Day, Several Gov’t-critical Portals Unavailable over Weekend Mérce, 444.hu, 24.hu, and the opposition primaries' online system were all unavailable or faced disruptions for some time over the... 2021.10.18.
Pro-Gov’t Org CÖF: October 23 Peace March ‘will be message to all of Europe’ The Peace March being organised by the pro-government Civic Union Forum (CÖF) and associated CÖKA foundation on the Oct 23... 2021.10.18.
Conservative Márki-Zay Wins Opposition Primary Péter Márki-Zay of the Everyone's Hungary Movement (Mindenki Magyarországa Mozgalom, MMM) won the opposition's primary election with 371,560 votes (56.71... 2021.10.18.
Hungarian Opposition Primaries Conclude with 662,000 Voting in Second Round The final round of the opposition primaries was concluded Saturday evening. The winner, DK's Klára Dobrev or Péter Márki Zay... 2021.10.17.
PMO State Secretary: DK Will Be “Calling the Shots” in Joint Opposition The outcome of the opposition's prime ministerial primary is irrelevant because the balance of power among Hungary's political parties is... 2021.10.16.
Press Roundup: Opposition Frontrunners Clash in Third Televised Debate A liberal commentator thinks that despite the tense and personal exchange between Dobrev and Márki-Zay, there is no vast ideological... 2021.10.15.
Márki-Zay: Fidesz Media Joined Opposition Primary Campaign on Klára Dobrev’s Side "[Minister of the PM’s Cabinet Office] Antal Rogán has decided to join the election campaign of Klára Dobrev," Péter Márki-Zay,... 2021.10.15.
MSZP Finally Decides to Back PM Candidate Márki-Zay in Primaries The Socialist Party (MSZP) has finally decided who they will support as the joint opposition's prime ministerial candidate in the... 2021.10.14.
Justice Minister Calls on EU to Drop Infringement Procedures against Hungary Justice Minister Judit Varga on Wednesday called on the European Commission to drop infringement procedures against Hungary. In a Facebook... 2021.10.14.
Rivalry between Opposition PM Candidates Márki-Zay and Dobrev Getting More Intense The battle for electing Viktor Orbán's challenger has been narrowed down to two contenders. As the second, decisive round of... 2021.10.12.
Press Roundup: Ruminations on Opposition’s Vision A pro-government columnist thinks that the opposition candidates have so far failed to outline their political vision. An alt-left commentator... 2021.10.12.
Orbán Gov’t Promises Generous Support for Pensioners Ahead of 2022 General Elections Less than six months ahead of the general elections, Viktor Orbán announced an extensive set of benefits for pensioners which... 2021.10.12.
Press Roundup: Weeklies on the Primary Runoff By the time the news broke on Friday that Klára Dobrev will face a single challenger, namely Péter Márki-Zay, in the second round of... 2021.10.11.
