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Budapest mayor quits primary to select Orban challenger

Karacsony was widely seen as the favourite

08 October, 15:47
(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, OCT 8 - Budapest's mayor on Friday withdrew from the opposition primary, leaving two candidates to battle over who will take on Prime Minister Viktor Orban in elections next year. Gergely Karacsony, 46, was widely seen as the favourite before the first round of voting last week, but finished second in a field of three. On Friday, he said he was endorsing the conservative Peter Marki-Zay, a provincial city mayor, in the runoff round that starts on Sunday and will run through October 16. Hungary's famously bickering opposition this year for the first time organised a primary election to decide who will take on the nationalist Orban and his Fidesz party in a general poll expected in April 2022. (ANSA-AFP).

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