Olga Kálmán (born 23 February 1968) is a politically independent Hungarian news editor,

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, left-wing politician, member of parliament, and author. Between 2003 and 2016, she was the host of ATV's ''Straight Talk'' (Egyenes Beszéd). Kálmán is author of the book ''Straight Talk''. She has received the János Déri award for lifetime achievement and the Hungarian Spokesman Organization's award. In 2019, Kálmán was announced as the candidate of the Democratic Coalition for the second round of the primaries for the 2019 Budapest mayoral election. Her opponents were

Gergely Karácsony Gergely Szilveszter Karácsony (; born 11 June 1975) is a Hungarian politician, sociologist, political scientist, activist and current Mayor of Budapest. He previously served as member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014 and Mayor ...

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and the entrepreneur Gábor Kerpel-Fronius ( hu) of

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. The second round primary took place between 20 and 26 June, with both online and in-person voting. On 23 June a televised debate was held between the three candidates on the channel ATV. This left Karácsony as the candidate of the opposition to stand against the incumbent mayor,

István Tarlós István Tarlós (; 26 May 1948) is a Hungarian politician who served as the mayor of Budapest from 2010 to 2019. He also served as the mayor of the 3rd district of the city (Óbuda-Békásmegyer) between 1990 and 2006 as an independent candidate ...

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, and at the election on 13 October 2019 Karácsony defeated Tarlós with the support of Kálmán.Helyi önkormányzati választások 2019
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