(MTI) – Laszlo Kover told commercial news channel Hir TV late on Saturday that he would feel honoured to be given the chance to fill again the post of speaker of Hungary’s next parliament. He said he felt comfortable occupying…
(MTI) – Hungary’s ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic alliance on Friday presented its European parliamentary candidates from Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries. Hungarians in western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region will be represented by college teacher Andrea Bocskor (9th place), ethnic kin in northern…
Budapest, April 14 (MTI) – Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party insists on “free palinka distillation” and will expect the government to find an appropriate legal solution to defending this “Hungarikum”, a party spokesman said on today. Peter Hoppal told a news…
(MTI) – Fidesz increased its political legitimacy by winning a two-thirds majority in parliament again, while the opposition alliance’s performance suggests a crisis on the left, analysts polled by MTI said on Sunday. Tamas Lanczi, senior analyst at Szazadveg, said…
Budapest, April 13 (MTI) – Having won two-thirds of the seats in the new parliament, the governing parties have received a clear mandate from voters to continue the work started, Fidesz communications officer Mate Kocsis said today. Commenting on the…
Budapest, April 12 (MTI) – Fidesz’s candidate won the mandate finishing ahead of the leftist opposition candidate in Budapest’s 15th voting district, where the race had been very close, the National Election Office (NVI) said today. With this mandate, Fidesz…
(MTI) – The ruling Fidesz party has fielded MEP Ildiko Gall Pelcz, its deputy leader, to top the party’s list for the May European parliamentary elections, a MEP of Fidesz said on Thursday. Second on the list is Jozsef Szajer…
(MTI) – Hungary’s re-elected Fidesz government faces structural and growth challenges and will need to patch up its frayed relations with business and banks to boost the economy, London-based emerging markets economists said on Monday. Timothy Ash of Standard Bank…
Budapest, April 7 (MTI) – Political analysts polled by MTI after the ruling Fidesz party declared victory in Sunday’s general election said it was up to final results in certain districts whether the party would secure a supermajority. Aron Hidvegi,…
Budapest, April 5 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in an interview published in Saturday’s daily Magyar Nemzet, urged all supporters of his ruling Fidesz party to go to the polls on Sunday. In response to a question about what…
(MTI) – The ruling Fidesz party has a good chance of winning Sunday’s general election “but chance is not equal to victory”; every vote counts, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a rally in Szeged, south Hungary, on Friday. Orban…
Budapest, April 4 (MTI) – The left-of-centre Unity opposition alliance has said it will submit a report to police in connection with a recording in which ruling Fidesz party politicians allegedly discuss the involvement of construction firm Kozgep in the…
(MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban, leader of the ruling Fidesz party, held an election rally under the motto “one camp, one flag” in Gyor, in west Hungary, on Thursday. Orban told party faithful that Fidesz wants to carry on…
Budapest, April 2 (MTI) – Fidesz should do at least as well in the election as four years ago, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a campaign event in Mezokovesd, northern Hungary, on Wednesday. He said the past four years…
Budapest, March 29 (MTI) – The pro-government Peace March, organised by the Civil Union Forum (COF), started from Alkotmany Street, in front of the parliament building, early in the afternoon today. The march was headed by COF founder Laszlo Csizmadia,…
Budapest, March 18 (MTI) – The Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court, ruled on Tuesday that commercial broadcaster TV2 broke the election law by airing a 50 second government information advert which bore the ruling Fidesz party’s slogan “Hungary is performing better”…
(MTI) – Campaign spending by the ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties and their backers has topped the legal limit, a Transparency International (TI) official said on Monday. Parties are legally allowed to spend a maximum of 1 billion forints…
Hungary could become a country which stands on its own feet, joining the ranks of proud and successful nations, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a commemoration of the March 15 national holiday in Budapest today. He said the country…
Budapest, March 6 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party has raised its voter support while Fidesz lost some of it and the opposition Unity alliance stayed unchanged, according to the latest poll published by Median. Fidesz still leads at…
Budapest, March 4 (MTI) – Between 2010 and 2013 the state has spent 657 billion forints (EUR 2.1bn) on buying stakes in companies and wasting taxpayers’ money in the process, opposition E-PM politician Gabor Scheiring told a news conference today.…