(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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