Local Elections – Opposition Leaders Go To Polls

Budapest, October 12 (MTI) – Opposition party leaders cast their ballots in Hungary’s local elections on Sunday.

Gabor Vona, who heads radical nationalist Jobbik, went to the polls in Budapest’s 11th district on Sunday. He encouraged all voters to go to the polls, regardless of their party preference. He said the election would determine whether governing Fidesz would have a strong challenger in 2018. The left has failed, both morally and politically, and the realistic alternative to Fidesz is Jobbik, he added.

Jozsef Tobias, chairman of the Socialists, cast his vote in Nyiregyhaza, in the east of the country, in the morning. “We expect victory in a number of county seats and several of the capital’s districts,” he said, also encouraging voters to make the time to get to the polls.