Outsider Marki-Zay to stand against PM Orban in 2022 after winning run-off

FILE PHOTO: Mayor of Hodmezovasarhely and conservative opposition candidate for prime minister, Peter Marki-Zay, leader of independent civic political initiative "Everyone's Hungary Movement" speaks at a campaign rally during the second round of the opposition primary election, in Budapest, Hungary, October 10, 2021. Picture taken October 10, 2021. REUTERS/Marton Monus

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Small-town conservative Peter Marki-Zay, a political outsider with no party affiliation, will go head-to-head with Prime Minister Viktor Orban next year for leadership of Hungary after on Sunday winning an opposition run-off primary.

Marki-Zay defeated leftist Klara Dobrev, who pledged to support him at the head of an alliance of six opposition parties that, in the 2022 parliamentary election, will bid to oust Orban after more than a decade in power.