With Hungary’s opposition parties seemingly recognizing that they’re unable to unseat prime minister Viktor Orban individually, the Wall Street Journal reports that they are on the verge of joining forces to accomplish the feat. Orban’s party Fidesz crushed the Socialists in 2010, which had held power for eight years. The Socialist party leader Attila Mesterhazy now says he’s virtually certain that he will band together with Gordon Bajnai, a one-time caretaker prime minister who has laid the groundworks for a new party called Together 2014. “I now see an almost 100% chance for an alliance to be formed” with Together 2014, Mesterhazy told the WSJ. The new party has confirmed that it had found common ground with the Socialists, but told the New York daily that details remained to be worked out.
