Left-winger aims to become Hungary's first female prime minister

FILE PHOTO: Klara Dobrev, candidate of the opposition party Democratic Coalition running in the race to become the opposition's joint candidate for prime minister, meets with supporters during the first round of the opposition primary election, in Budapest, Hungary, September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Klara Dobrev's first political campaign two years ago earned her leftist party a better-than-expected four seats in the European Parliament. Now she is one step closer to her next goal: ousting nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

After the first round of opposition primaries the 49-year-old lawyer is now front-runner to become the candidate to lead a united opposition into an election early next year when she hopes to end Orban's decade in power.