Closed-door Meeting with Péter Márki-Zay

On 2 December 2021, Visegrad Insight held a closed-door expert discussion with Péter Márki-Zay, a candidate of the United Opposition for the Prime Minister of Hungary.

Programme:
Wojciech Przybylski – welcome
Péter Márki-Zay – introduction
Edit Zgut – moderating the discussion

Péter Márki-Zay is a Hungarian politician. He has been the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely town since 2018, and is the co-founder of the Everybody’s Hungary Movement (Mindenki Magyarországa Mozgalom; MMM). He studied marketing, economics, and electrical engineering during his college education and has graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University as a Doctor of Philosophy in the history of economics in 2006. On 17 October, Márki-Zay won the run-off in the United Opposition primaries with 56.7% of the vote and will be the leader and Prime Ministerial candidate of the United Opposition in the 2022 general elections.

Edit Zgut is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences, Visegrad Insight fellow.

Wojciech Przybylski is Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight, President of Res Publica Foundation and Europe’s Future Fellow at the IWM – Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna

• Hungary
• Illiberalism
• Poland