(2 Apr 2022)
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Budapest – 2 April 2022
1. Wide of Hungarian opposition supporters singing UPSOUND (Hungarian): "Power to the people, power to the people..."
2. Pan of opposition supporters clapping
3. Wide of Peter Marki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate of Hungary's opposition coalition United For Hungary, stepping onto stage as crowd chant UPSOUND (Hungarian): "MZP, MZP…"
4. Wide of opposition supporters clapping
5. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian): Peter Marki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate for Hungary's opposition coalition:
"Viktor Orban has betrayed the nation, he has betrayed NATO, he has betrayed Europe, and he has betrayed the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. Yes, Viktor Orban is a traitor. And an honest Hungarian cannot vote for a traitor! True Hungarians won't vote for a traitor tomorrow because they simply can't do that."
6. Pan of opposition supporters clapping
7. Opposition supporters with banner
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian): Peter Marki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate for Hungary's opposition coalition:
"One day before the parliamentary elections, I am proud to tell you that after four years of work, we are standing at the gate of victory."
9. Wide of opposition supporters cheering
10. Marki-Zay clapping
11. Wide of opposition supporters cheering
STORYLINE:
A diverse coalition of opposition parties made their final appeal to Hungarian voters on Saturday ahead of fiercely fought election which will decide whether nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will continue his rule for a fourth consecutive term.
Several hundred supporters of the six-party coalition, United For Hungary, gathered in the rain in central Budapest one day before the vote on Sunday.
The movement's leader, Peter Marki-Zay, said this national election was about bringing an end to “the most corrupt government in our 1,000-year history,” and ushering in a new era of inclusive democracy in the Central European and European Union nation.
"Viktor Orban has betrayed the nation, he has betrayed NATO, he has betrayed Europe," he told cheering supporters.
A small-town mayor and self-proclaimed conservative Christian, Marki-Zay, 49, became the figurehead of the six-party coalition after he was selected by an opposition primary election in October to face Orban for the post of prime minister.
The six parties, which include the liberal Democratic Coalition, the centrist Momentum and the right-wing Jobbik, as well as smaller green parties and Socialists, are for the first time running against Orban's right-wing Fidesz party as a united bloc.
That hard-fought strategy of total unity, they say, is the only way to overcome structural impediments to defeating Orban, including what they call a media environment dominated by Fidesz allies and unfairly gerrymandered electoral districts which give Orban's party significantly more parliamentary seats than its portion of the popular vote.
Recent polls suggest the race will be the closest in more than a decade, but give Fidesz a small lead.
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