It's 'Orban or Europe' in 2022 election, Hungary opposition frontrunner says

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) - The leading candidate to spearhead the opposition challenge to Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary's parliamentary elections said on Wednesday the contest would be about "Orban or Europe", with Hungary's access to European Union funds at stake.

In next year's vote the nationalist Orban will, for the first time since he came to power in 2010, face a united front of opposition parties that includes the Socialists, the liberals and the formerly far-right - and now centre-right - Jobbik.