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Opposition to the dominant conservative Fidesz nationalist party in Hungary on Sunday gave a strong sign of life by winning the municipal elections in Budapest and other major cities in the country.

The candidate of the opposition coalition, Gergely Karacsony , will be the next mayor of the Hungarian capital after imposing himself on the current mayor, István Tarlós, with 50% of the votes against 46% of the candidate for the ruling party.

It is the first time for almost a decade that the opposition achieved great success in an election in Hungary, where Fidesz, the party of the controversial ultra-national Prime Minister Viktor Orban , dominates politics with large majorities.

In ten of the 23 largest cities in the country the opposition will rule in the future, while the Fidesz regional level remains the strongest party.

Local opposition coalitions have integrated parties from the centrist Momentum, to the left of the Socialist Party, the Democratic Coalition, Párbeszéd (Dialogue) and the ecologist LMP, but in some cases to the far right of the Jobbik.

Apart from Budapest, the opposition will rule in the towns of Pecs, Szeged and Miskolc, although in the second city of the country, in Debrecen, the Fidesz candidate won again.

The Orban party, which has painted the country's political map orange (its color) since the 2006 local elections, suffered its first major electoral coup in almost a decade.

Some 8 million Hungarians with the right to vote were summoned today to elect for a period of five years the councilors and mayors of more than 3,000 localities and districts in the 19 provinces of the country and Budapest.

The electoral campaign was marked by a dirty electoral campaign and a series of supposed corruption scandals on both sides of the political spectrum.

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