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Leader of Hungarian opposition promises to extradite Gruevski if elected PM

Leader of Hungarian opposition promises to extradite Gruevski if elected PM
Budapest, 28 October 2021 (MIA) – Leader of the Everybody’s Hungary Movement (MMM) and opposition candidate running for prime minister of Hungary, Péter Márki-Zay, has said that if he wins the 2022 parliamentary elections, he will extradite former Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski and Jordan businessman Zaid Naffa to their respective home countries. Gruevski and Naffa have been granted asylum in Hungary. Márki-Zay posted on Twitter that they’re “criminal migrants housed by Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party”. “We will get these criminal migrants housed by Fidesz. We will extradite Nikola Gruevski from North Macedonia, Zaid Naffa from Jordan and other criminal migrants Fidesz has housed,” Márki-Zay’s Twitter post says. Gruevski was granted asylum in 2019 having fled North Macedonia after being ordered to serve prison time three years ago. The joint Hungarian opposition elected 49-year-old Márki-Zay, Mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, as its prime minister candidate to face off against the current Hungarian PM, Orbán, and his conservative populist party Fidesz in April 2022. According to polls, an uncertain battle is anticipated in April between Fidesz and the coalition comprised of six opposition parties and independent politicians led by Márki-Zay. dk/ba/