Fidelitas Compares Opposition PM Candidate Márki-Zay to Ceaușescu Fidesz's youth organization Fidelitas compared newly-elected opposition PM candidate Péter Márki-Zay to Nicolae Ceaușescu. In response, centrist liberal Momentum in... 2021.10.21.
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.
Momentum President Resigns after Losing Vote of Confidence After András Fekete-Győr, then-president of the centrist liberal Momentum party finished last in the first round of the primaries, he... 2021.10.11.
Pro-Fidesz Tabloids Lose Lawsuit Against Hadházy, Claim Author of Defamatory Articles Unknown Following proven instances of defamation and falsehoods, pro-government tabloids Ripost and Origo have refused to give out the details of... 2021.10.08.
Opposition PM Candidates Karácsony and Márki-Zay Still Undecided Who Should Step Aside Amid Contradictory Survey Results As we are getting closer to the second round of the primary elections, the tension between candidates does not seem... 2021.10.06.
Momentum President Initiates Vote of No Confidence Against Himself after Primaries Failure Centrist-liberal opposition party Momentum's president András Fekete-Győr has initiated a vote of no confidence against himself, after finishing last in... 2021.10.06.
Karácsony and Márki-Zay’s Plan to Challenge DK’s Dobrev Together at Opposition PM Primary Fails Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony and Hódmezővásárhely mayor Péter Márki-Zay said that they would run together in the second round of... 2021.10.05.
Second Round of the Primaries Might See Political Maneuvering Klára Dobrev, Gergely Karácsony, and Péter Márki-Zay have made it to the second round of the primary elections. Now that... 2021.10.01.
EP’s LIBE Committee in Hungary to Assess Rule of Law Situation As the European Parliament has long voiced concern over democratic backsliding in the country, members of the EP's Committee on... 2021.09.30.
Opposition Primaries: Results Counted Until Thursday Evening As of today, Thursday, the results of the opposition primaries will be counted and the winner announced as the prime... 2021.09.30.
Controversial Socialist MP Tóth Pulls Out of Primaries after Losing Support of Backing Parties Csaba Tóth, Zugló's incumbent Socialist (MSZP) lawmaker, has decided to step down in the primaries. Following a number of accusations,... 2021.09.28.
Opposition Parties Distance Themselves from Jobbik Politician after Controversial Photo Surfaces A photo depicting the deputy mayor of Ózd has recently surfaced, in which the politician of opposition Jobbik is making... 2021.09.27.
Pegasus: All Five Momentum Referendum Questions Rejected by Election Committee The National Election Committee (NVB) has rejected all five referendum questions in the Pegasus case of Momentum politician, Miklós Hajnal,... 2021.09.24.
Analysis of Primaries: Balance Among Potential Winners but DK and Jobbik Can Hope for More Besides a virtual balance in potential candidates, current situation predicts the likelihood of Jobbik and Democratic Coalition (DK) to come... 2021.09.16.
Skirmishes and Controversy Accompany Opposition Primaries Despite the opposition parties endorsing one another, stressing that primaries are a celebration of democracy, their campaign and fights for... 2021.09.08.
Párbeszéd Submits Anti-Graft Proposals to Parliament The opposition Párbeszéd party on Friday said it has submitted three proposals to parliament related to setting up an anti-corruption... 2021.09.04.
War of Words Following Budapest Assembly’s Vote on Veto of Athletics World Championships Although there hasn't been complete harmony within the opposition leadership of the capital, the Budapest Assembly still voted in a... 2021.09.02.
Football Fed President Invites Opposition Leaders to Match after Fidesz Politician’s Exclusionary Comment After Fidesz lawmaker Gyula Budai told Momentum's leader and the Budapest mayor not to show up at the Hungarian national... 2021.08.30.
Opposition Primaries Procedure Begins to Find Strongest Candidates to Challenge Fidesz Next Year Following long negotiations and dealings, administration of the opposition primaries has just been concluded, and the procedure officially started on... 2021.08.23.
Opposition Parties and Human Rights NGO TASZ Challenge Gov’t’s ‘Child Protection’ Referendum Human rights NGO TASZ and opposition parties Momentum and satirical Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), decided to challenge the National... 2021.08.17.
Press Roundup: The Lost Budapest Olympics of 2024 The end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the oncoming preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics have prompted some Hungarian... 2021.08.10.
