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Peter Marki-Zay, the conservative mayor of Hodmezovasarhely and leader of the joint opposition. Photo: Facebook

Peter Marki-Zay, the mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, speaks at an anti-government protest in downtown Budapest, Hungary, 01 May 2018. EPA-EFE/ZOLTAN BALOGH The candidates

Hungarian politician Klara Dobrev, 49, whose father is Bulgarian, proved to be a major candidate in the opposition's attempt to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next year's elections. This is shown by the partial results of today's internal elections, Reuters and BNR reported.

If the parliamentary vote succeeds, Klara Dobrev could become the country's first female prime minister.

Hungary survived the spring wave of the virus virtually unscathed, with very low casualties, though at a high economic price. Polls in the summer showed that Fidesz actually increased its support by 5 per cent, or 400,000 voters. However, it all fell apart in the autumn, when voters found the government's response to the second, more serious wave wonting.

The presidents of the opposition parties - including the liberal Democratic Coalition, the Socialists, the young emerging Momentum, the leftist-liberal Dialogue, the greenish LMP and the former radical rightist Jobbik - have agreed to nominate only one candidate in each of the 106 individual constituencies.

Hungary should change its laws on public assembly, a lawmaker from the ruling FIDESZ party has said following last week's massive anti-government protest in Budapest.

One of the senior lawmakers of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Pervin Buldan, has expressed indignation over a photograph supposedly depicting her daughter that has been widely shared on social media.

The head of the opposition Democratic Front, Miodrag Lekic, who is the temporary leader of the city assembly, refused to schedule a session on Monday on suspicion that coalition between the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists and the smaller Social Democratic Party was made on the "basis of political corruption". 

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The Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, and the Social Democratic Party agreed on Sunday to form a city government in the capital, ending a political crisis that threatened new local elections.

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BELGRADE – Aleksandar Senic, MP for the opposition New Democratic Party (NDS), is the candidate for chairman of the Serbian parliament’s European Integration Committee, ruling Serbian Progressive Party's (SNS) whip Zoran Babic has confirmed for Tanjug.