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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Tim Gosling

Hungary’s opposition struggles to maintain unity ahead of vote

Prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition Peter Marki-Zay addresses his supporters in Budapest [File: Zsolt Szigetvary/EPA]

Budapest, Hungary – Peter Marki-Zay stares out from Budapest’s billboards, bus stops and lamp posts. But the leader of United for Hungary, an opposition alliance taking part in Hungary’s April 3 parliamentary election, has not plastered his own image across the capital city.

Rather, the posters are the work of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s governing Fidesz party, and they suggest Marki-Zay is a pawn of political villains intent on destroying Hungary’s sovereignty and Christian culture.

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