World News: Hungarians to pick Orban’s 2022 contender in tight opposition primary – Gulf Digital News

World News: Hungarians to pick Orban’s 2022 contender in tight opposition primary – Gulf Digital News

BUDAPEST - 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.

The tight race between Dobrev, a 49-year-old lawyer and economist, whose candidacy would raise the prospect of Hungary's first female prime minister, and Marki-Zay, a small-town mayor with no party affiliation, has mobilised hundreds of thousands of voters tired of Orban's nationalist government which has been in power since 2010.

Orban will, for the first time, face a united front of diverse opposition parties in 2022 that includes the Democratic Coalition, the Socialists, liberals and the formerly far-right - and now centre-right - Jobbik. Polls show Orban's ruling Fidesz party and the opposition alliance running neck-and-neck.