Opposition MP candidate: Signature drive for student quarter, jobseekers’ allowance could start this week

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The signature drive for a referendum on Budapest’s student quarter and on the extension of the jobseekers’ allowance to 270 days is scheduled to start on Wednesday, Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the joint opposition parties said on Tuesday.

Signatures will be collected in Budapest and 23 large provincial cities by opposition MP candidates. Márki-Zay, who currently serves as the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, in southeast Hungary, told a press conference held jointly with the candidates that the signature sheets will be available in the offices of the Democractic Coalition, Jobbik, Momentum, Socialists, LMP and Párbeszéd parties.

The questions initiated by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony “tackle people’s real problems, unlike Fidesz’s questions which aim to stigmatise minorities,” Márki-Zay said.

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  1. “Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the joint opposition parties”

    Get serious. This clown is a nothing. In Hungary, the PM is not elected by direct vote of population. The PM is nominated and elected by the representatives. The party with the most representative gets to nominate the PM.
    This clown has no real party. He is a fake with more questions about his origins and shady foreign supporters than answers.

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