BUDAPEST: Hungarians have started voting in an election that will determine whether incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban will extend his 12 years in power by winning another term. Polls opened on Sunday morning following an electoral campaign dominated by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
The race has been the closest in years as the six main opposition parties have come together and picked up a single candidate, Peter Marki-Zay, with the common goal of bringing down Orban and his Fidesz party.
A 49-year-old marketing expert and the mayor of the city of Hodmezovasarhely in southeast Hungary, Marki-Zay was a surprise choice to emerge out of the opposition primaries.
A conservative independent politician, he is a practising Catholic and the father of seven children. –Agencies
