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Far-Right Party to Field Mayoral Candidates in Budapest: Will It Endanger Position of Opposition in Capital?

• 18 Dec 2023 11:33 AM
• Hungary Matters

Opposition party Mi Hazánk on Saturday said it will field a mayoral candidate in every district of Budapest in next year’s local council elections.

Dóra Dúró, the party’s deputy leader, said Mi Hazánk was the only opposition party that would run a mayoral candidate of its own in all 23 of the capital’s districts.

“We’re not deciding on our mayoral candidates in smoke-filled rooms together with other parties,” Dúró told a press conference. She said her party’s pick of its candidates offered a “third way in Hungarian public life”.

Dúró underlined that Mi Hazánk would not run a joint candidate either with any of the left-liberal parties or ruling Fidesz in any electoral district, or support any other party’s candidate.

She also said her party’s campaigns would be financed from state support and its candidates’ own money rather than “dollars coming from America”.

András Grundtner, Mi Hazánk’s candidate for Budapest mayor, said the party only accepted “real patriots” and was especially proud of its candidates.

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