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The opposition is committed to direct general presidential election in Hungary, and considers it “unfair” that the incumbent Fidesz-Christian Democrat (KDNP) majority should decide on the next president representing national unity weeks before the end of its mandate, the opposition parliamentary parties said on Wednesday.
Referring to Fidesz’s candidate, former youth and family affairs minister Katalin Novák, the statement accused the party of nominating “a party soldier for the third time in a row for one of the most important public offices in Hungary.”
In view of the current legislation,
the opposition is nominating economist Péter Róna, “a compatriot who made a career in economy and finance while preserving his integrity and independent opinion,
who always stood up for democratic values, always saw the education of younger generations as important and who never severed ties with his homeland”, they said.