Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony/ Opposition candidate Peter Marki-Zay/ European Parliament Vice-president, Ms. Dobrev. Wikipedia
Hungarian opposition backs conservative Catholic figure to dethrone Orban
In the spring of 2022, the Hungarian opposition believe they will have the opportunity to defeat Viktor Orban, who has been in power since 2010.
Published: October 18, 2021, 10:38 am
It is a prospect which, according to French daily Le Monde, has prompted six very diverse parties to unite and to choose a single candidate. Thus Peter Marki-Zay will embody the hopes of a coalition bringing together six parties from the left to the extreme right, in view of the legislative elections of spring 2022.
They believe they are ready for anything. Six months before the Hungarian legislative election. The nationalist Prime Minister Orban will therefore have to face an improbable coalition of six parties, all united around a single slogan: “Orban, that’s enough”. There is a united front against of one of the strongmen of Eastern Europe who had pushed out left-wing parties, a social democratic trend, and in particular a move to work together with a far-right formation that Le Monde described as “formerly neo-Nazi” as in Ukraine.
Viktor Orban’s ‘sustainable society’
It appears that the Magyar left is ready to do anything to get rid of Viktor Orban. On Sunday, October 17, the six allies also proposed a single candidate, Peter Marki-Zay. He is conservative and Catholic, and a former voter of Fidesz – the political formation of Viktor Orban. This candidate was chosen above all for his political profile, which would prove to be difficult to attack by the Hungarian Prime Minister.
Pro-European, anti-corruption
At the origin of this alliance, is a simple observation: “Leftist ideas do not move the majority in Hungary today,” according to Gergely Karacsony – mayor of Budapest and a figure in the leftist opposition.
Karacsony announced on October 8 that he would withdraw from the primary contest which will choose a joint opposition nominee to challenge right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ending his participation in a race in which he was once considered the frontrunner organized by the six parties. “I believe that Peter Marki-Zay can unite the opposition,” he said in response to his withdrawal.
In fact, in the first round of the primaries, Marki-Zay only came in third place behind Gergely Karacsony and Klara Dobrev, a 49-year-old lawyer and vice president of the European Parliament, but his conservative pedigree won him the race.
Peter Marki-Zay was therefore elected with 56,7 percent of the votes and will have the heavy task of challenging Viktor Orban. For the first time in twelve years, noted Le Monde, Prime Minister Orban appears to be challenged in the polls, as Fidesz is in a tight race with this unprecedented coalition.
“We will be able to restore freedom in this country”, said Peter Marki-Zay during his inauguration speech on Sunday, October 17. Aged 49 and father of seven children, the latter intends to bet everything on his political profile, resolutely modern. He himself is a conservative and a Catholic, as well as the independent mayor of a large town in south-eastern Hungary, Hodmezovasarhely.
Peter Marki-Zay has also proclaimed his attachment to the European Union. In favor of Hungary’s entry into the euro zone and the European public prosecutor’s office, Peter Marki-Zay has promised that once he gets elected, he would investigate many relatives of Viktor Orban, suspected of getting rich thanks to alleged nepotism.
His profession of faith which was therefore accepted by the Hungarian left, which also made sure that the conservative candidate would not infringe “on the rights of homosexuals”. It now remains to bring down the popular Orban, determined to hold onto power.
The candidate’s ‘migrant counter’
In 2018, Marki-Zay announced that he would be running as an independent candidate in the mayoral by-election. His candidacy was initially supported by three opposition parties, including the Hungarian Socialist Party, Politics Can Be Different and the far-right Jobbik, with Momentum and the Democratic Coalition endorsing him a few days later.
He said at the time that he did not sympathise with the views of any of the parties supporting him, describing himself as a right-wing Christian, and a disappointed Fidesz voter. But during his first term as a mayor, he was eventually ordered by his leftist partners to remove a “migrant counter” he had placed inside the city hall.
Despite the historically unprecedented unity of the opposition parties backing him, his candidacy was initially seen as a long-shot by many observers, owing to Fidesz’s popularity in the city as well as his political inexperience. But they acknowledged that he had managed to become the city’s first non-Fidesz mayor since 1990.
Following his success, Marki-Zay has continued to advocate for a nationwide unity between opposition parties. In 2018, he founded the non-partisan Everybody’s Hungary Movement [Mindenki Magyarországa Mozgalom; MMM] in order to further cooperation between opposition parties.
In 2019, Marki-Zay ran for reelection, this time under the banner of MMM and his candidacy was once again supported by all major opposition parties. He defeated the Fidesz-backed independent candidate István Grezsa by 13478 votes to 10042, earning him a second term as the city’s mayor.
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The united opposition has gone with Marki-Zay instead of a Dobrev, a socialist, that indicates the misgivings of those in the opposition to leftist leadership. He seems to have already compromised any conservative principles in order to placate the left and gain its support. It also impacts Marki-Zay’s credentials regarding not just his conservativism, but his integrity. Even absent this issue, it will be difficult for the opposition to hold together, as the left parties will constantly seek to run things, with many being funded by foreign paymasters. And it is the latter, that includes old enemies of Orban, that are orchestrating and funding the united opposition to Orban and would dismantle his projects. The question remains whether internal divisions will cause the united opposition to fall apart before the elections. If it wins, it will likely be unable to govern, as the leftist-globalist elements within it will at last make their bid for power It will be interesting how Orban and Fidesz will confront this challenge, and exploit this evident (to all outside the united left) Achilles heel.
Marki-Zay
sounds like a globalist
in conservative clothing.
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That’s one possibility. The other is that he is being used by the leftist-globalist forces in the Hungarian united opposition. If they do end up winning next year, it’s doubtful he will last long. Useful idiots don’t, and he will have no further use for them.
Precisely. He won’t last one day IF they happen to win. He’s like one of those ‘hosts’ in the insect world used by the other insect’s larva to feed until it hatches. Just a disposable vessel to carry Gyurcsány through the election.
It’s questionable whether or not the united opposition may even hold together in the runup to the election.
The only bond what keeps them together is their crazed craving for power. For the left (DK, MSZP etc.) it’s their instinct for robbing, looting and stealing anything they can steal – that’s what they are best at, as always. For Jobbik, who used to be the largest opposition party, a true neonazi (occasionally paramilitary) antisemitic/antiroma outfit, it is power in the jackboot sense. They are crazed enough for power that they willingly went to bed with the communists.
I can easily imagine they’ll stick together in the runup; hunger for power can do miracles. After that, shall they win (not that they will), it’ll be dog-eats-dog hierarchy – Jobbik has zero chance against the comrades, they’ll be delegated & deployed as the goons and jackbootsoldiers of the left.
As for Márki-Zay, he will be discarded as a used condom.
All this should make us wonder whether the unified opposition will hold together by election time. Marki-Zay might even be replaced before the election if there is no change leftward in the polls, or if Fidesz and its allies make gains.
There are already almighty spats, tiffs and hissy fits (threats, blackmailings, etc.) within the “unified opposition”, most involving (but not limited to) Gyurcsány and MZ. General citizen consensus seems to be “sit down with a bucket of popcorn, enjoy the show, don’t interrupt”. Quite like the UK Labour, only with less wokery.
Which is an interesting difference. I like to take a look at what all sorts say (i’m a regular Guardian reader, heh) – and last night i looked at one of the nastiest leftist rags in Hungary, the 444. They had a piece about some american black grievance issue (Chinese university professor sacked for “insensitivity”), and even the rabid brainwashed 444ers were perplexed by the sheer lunacy.
Sometimes i watch TV debates (“left” vs “right”), and on issues like mass immigration or BLM even the unhinged left is more to the “right” than the Conservative Party of the UK. I hear it’s quite the same in Czech and Poland too.
Thanks for that insight. Each country has its own political culture. And the US is no exception. You cited a good example regarding the University of Michigan case.
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