BUDAPEST: Hungary's first-ever primary elections to find a candidate to challenge right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban got off to a rocky start on Saturday with voting suspended due to what organisers said was a suspected cyber attack.
One of the organisers, Gyorgy Magyar, told Hungarian television channel ATV that they would need 36 hours to investigate the matter.Opposition leaders blamed Orban and the government for an attack, while Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony - himself looking to be the one chosen to take on Orban - also pointed to IP addresses of Chinese origin that were identified.
They accuse 58-year-old Orban - who came to power in 2010 and regularly clashes with Brussels over migration and rule-of-law issues - of endemic corruption and creeping authoritarianism. Electoral changes brought in under Orban handed Fidesz powerful parliamentary"super majorities" in 2014 and 2018, despite winning less than half of the vote.
Polls so far indicate an unpredictable parliamentary election next April for the first time since Orban came to power. But some cracks in the alliance have appeared. In June, former far-right party Jobbik broke ranks by voting for a controversial anti-LGBTQ law proposed by Fidesz.
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