Hungarian political movement Momentum has collected more than 200,000 signatures on a petition against Budapest's 2024 Olympics bid, raising the prospect of a referendum. Momentum, launched by a group of students born around 1989 when communism collapsed in Hungary, will finish collecting signatures at the conclusion of a month-long campaign later on Friday and submit them to the Budapest election committee.
The authority will then rule whether a sufficient number of valid signatures have been collected to call a referendum in the city, which is competing against Paris and Los Angeles for the right to host the 2024 Games.