Former Hungarian PM Gyurcsány’s party to field candidates in all 106 electoral districts in 2026

The Democratic Coalition (DK) will field candidates in all 106 individual constituencies in the 2026 general election, Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leftist opposition party’s leader, said on Saturday.

DK will start announcing their candidates in early November, Gyurcsány said at an event marking the 13th anniversary of the founding of the party. In his speech streamed online, Gyurcsány called out Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for controlling “our common narrative” and said that today, only the Democratic Coalition could deliver a “credible narrative”.

He said the reason for the opposition’s loss in the 2022 election was not that they had joined forces but rather that they had not had their own shared story. Gyurcsány said Hungary’s interests lay in making Europe stronger, arguing that it was through Europe that Hungary could participate in the global competition. He said Hungary was a sovereign country, but also called for strengthening Europe’s sovereignty.

He called for the establishment of a new alliance of democracies that espouse Western values. Klára Dobrev, the party’s MEP, said she was proud that DK had never compromised on the kind of Europe, Hungary and world it represented.

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