FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Hungarian Olympic Committee Zsolt Borkai gestures in Budapest, Hungary ,5 April 2016. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A former Olympic champion who had just been re-elected mayor of a city in Hungary quit the ruling Fidesz party on Tuesday to limit the political fallout from a video purportedly showing him having sex with a young woman on a yacht.
Fidesz, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, portrays itself as a champion of Christian and family values, and Orban has criticised liberalism in Western society.
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