The majority of Hungarians want change which is why an alliance of parties that want change is needed, as “the majority must not be in opposition”, prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Socialists and Párbeszed parties Gergely Karácsony said on Wednesday.
A joint prime ministerial candidate is needed who can make a joint offer to create a joint country, Karácsony, who is also co-leader of Párbeszed, told the Socialists’ season-opening event in Budapest.
He described ruling Fidesz as the best-organised minority and said he and his supporters are tasked with organising the power of the people against the people in power.
The alliance of Párbeszed and the Socialists is open to all parties and citizens and “the door will remain open until the very end,” Karácsony added.
He said he was “not a savior but one who serves” and if leading a joint list was the best way to serve then that’s what he would do.
The aim is to replace “Fidesz’s pseudo-democracy” with social democracy, he added.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán enjoyed many people’s trust in 2010 but they have become deeply disappointed, Karácsony said.
“Never before in Hungarian history had someone received such a chance to serve the people” and never before had someone “abused his power to such an extent”, he added.
Karácsony asked the people not to believe in “false prophets” who claim that it will be impossible to win in 2018.
Socialist leader for Budapest Ágnes Kunhalmi told the meeting that Fidesz would automatically get a two-thirds majority if there is no joint list and joint prime ministerial candidate in the 2018 election. The competition between democratic parties must end because it will make the left-wing disintegrate, she added.
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But surely, that is the whole idea isn’t? You, the Lefties, want to work together, not to become a good ruling party in Hungary, but just to oust the FIDESZ from power. Don’t you think this country has had enough of Socialist power? Many, many Hungarian people have enjoyed the trust of Orbán Viktor, and many, many more will do so in the future. One just has to look back over the past nearly eight years and see just what Orbán Viktor and the Fidesz party have done through their trust. At the end of 2009, Hungary was on the verge of total bankrupsy, inherited from the out going Socialists run by Merry men Gyurcsány and Bajnai. They robbed the country of almost everything, packing their pockets full of money that was rightfully of the working people of Hungary.” What is this thing about change”. Is this some kind of joke coming from the lefties? The only change that needs to be made is for the Fidesz government to stay in power, and the lefties to change their Socialist, Communist attitudes and start helping this government to build the country up, not to keep dragging it down. Fidesz has got it right. The Lefties have got it wrong.
@maté Pál
Very well and accurately said. Gyurcsány, Bajnai, and the rest of the Bolsheviks should go out into a field with a gun to their heads and save the tax payers of Hungary and abroad, a lot of tax money.