The main opposition Fidesz party and its Christian Democratic ally have attained their target to collect two million candidate petition slips for the general elections, a senior party official told reporters in Budapest on Tuesday.
The number of slips has even exceeded two million, operative director Zsolt Nyitrai said.
Under Hungary’s election law, individuals wishing to enter the elections have to collect at least 750 petition slips in their constituency.
As there are altogether 176 individual constituencies in the country, the figure announced by Nyitrai implies that Fidesz has collected over ten times the amount of slips required for fielding a candidate everywhere.
The party alliance, which is widely tipped to win a landslide in the April elections, will launch its election campaign on March 15.
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