Most of Fidesz's senior politicians will not run as individual candidates for Parliament, national council president László Kövér said Sunday.

Kövér told state news agency MTI that there is a great chance that Fidesz will win in all 176 individual constituencies, but can expect no more than eight of the 58 MPs seats assigned from the compensation list. As a consequence, those politicians who are most important to the party will have to be placed at the head of county lists.

He said they will have a difficult job in putting together the lists, as 71 of the 162 Fidesz and Christian Democrat MPs will not run as individual candidates, including party chairman Viktor Orbán, deputy chairwoman Ildikó Gáll Pelcz, party director Gábor Kubatov, former economy minister György Matolcsy, former health minister István Mikola, foreign affairs committee chairman Zsolt Németh, chief of staff Péter Szíjjártó and Kövér.

Fidesz leaders will finalise the party's election lists shortly before the formal opening of its campaign on March 15.