Momentum nominates Kerpel-Fronius for Budapest mayor

The opposition Momentum Movement on Monday nominated businessman Gábor Kerpel-Fronius, the leader of the party’s chapter in Budapest’s 13th district, as its candidate for Budapest mayor in the autumn local elections.

At a press conference boradcast on its Facebook page, Momentum leader András Fekete-Győr said that the results of the European parliamentary election, where Momentum has secured two EP mandates with nine percent of the votes, has shown that Hungarian politics needs “new faces”.

Momentum is the strongest opposition party in 10 of the 23 districts in Budapest, he said.

The decision to nominate Krempel-Fronius was made before the EP election, Fekete-Győr said.

Should Socialist-Párbeszéd candidate Gergely Karácsony win the second round of the opposition pre-election ballot at the end of June, Momentum is ready to back him, he added.

Kerpel-Fronius said