(MTI) – Hungary’s opposition slammed Viktor Orban for forming his government “behind closed doors” and by “sleight of hand” after the new cabinet ministers were sworn in on Friday. Jozsef Tobias, the Socialist Party‘s acting group leader, told reporters it…
(MTI) – The green LMP will field solely its own candidates in the autumn local elections and cooperate with local civil groups, senior members of the party said on Saturday. The party adopted a related resolution at its congress. LMP…
Budapest, May 25 (MTI) – The European parliamentary elections will decide whether Hungarian wages catch up and whether Hungarian workers get more protection, the co-chair of green party LMP said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after casting his ballot in…
(MTI) – List leaders of six of the eight parties participating in the Hungarian EP elections on Sunday held a televised debate about the European Union and the stake of the vote. The debate organised by commercial broadcaster ATV was…
(MTI) – The green opposition LMP party has a programme which fits the platforms of European green parties well, and the party is well placed to send representatives to the European Parliament, Tamas Meszerics, an LMP candidate, said. On certain…
Budapest, May 12 (MTI) – The government is responsible for “cutting off” Hungary’s access to Norwegian funds, opposition officials insisted on Monday. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday the suspension of funding under its Norway Grants scheme operating within…
(MTI) – The green LMP party called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an open letter on Sunday to intervene and prevent radical developments in a dispute around an organic farm in Kishantos in central Hungary. In the letter, LMP…
(MTI) – The Municipal Court of Budapest has rejected a request by the green opposition LMP party for access to information regarding the government’s expansion of the Paks nuclear plant. Bernadett Szel, LMP’s co-leader, had asked the National Development Ministry…
(MTI) – The opposition LMP party will strongly represent the interests of the employees in Hungary, the party’s co-chair said on Thursday, on International Workers’ Day. It is unacceptable and unworthy that workforce in Hungary is “advertised in the east”…
Budapest, April 26 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party must in the next four years focus on showing Hungarians that there is an alternative to the current regime represented by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, party leader Andras Schiffer said…
Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – The opposition Socialists will support calls by the green opposition LMP party to convene an extraordinary parliamentary session over farmland issues. “The scandals regularly surrounding state land leases, the fact that the land law and…
Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party could end up with two mandates in the European parliamentary elections, although a lot will depend on the turnout, Andras Schiffer, the party’s co-leader, said. LMP has successfully completed the…
Budapest, April 15 (MTI) – The small opposition LMP party has proposed that a two-day extraordinary session of parliament should be convened to discuss the protection of Hungarian farmland, Bernadett Szel, the party’s lawmaker said. The radical nationalist Jobbik said…
(MTI) – Opposition LMP is not connected to the Okotars Foundation, associated with the management of Norwegian funds granted to promote civil society in Hungary, the party said in a statement on Thursday. LMP reacted to a Tuesday statement by…
Brussels, April 7 (MTI) – Hungary’s electoral system should be “blamed” for the Fidesz party’s second landslide victory in Sunday’s election, the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group has said. In a statement today, Rebecca Harms, leader of the Green group, noted…
Budapest, March 28 (MTI) – Votes cast for the Socialists and the Fidesz party in the past 20 years have been wasted, the co-chair of the opposition LMP party said on Friday on the campaign trail in eastern Hungary. Inclusion…
Budapest, March 15 (MTI) – The message of 1848/49 is that a “vassal” state cannot be independent and its citizens cannot be free, the co-chair of the opposition LMP party said at their commemoration in central Budapest today. The lesson…
Budapest, February 28 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has turned to President Janos Ader, asking him to consider supporting a referendum on the broader subject of nuclear power rather than just the recent accord with Russia on upgrading Paks…
(MTI) – The opposition LMP party has drafted a programme for putting Hungary’s higher education system on “right track” after a “downward path” during the past four-year term of the government, spokesman Erno Peto told a press conference on Sunday.…
Budapest, February 6 (MTI) – A vote in parliament on the nuclear plant Paks upgrade was interrupted by a protest of opposition LMP lawmakers today. Andras Schiffer, co-leader of LMP, held up a sign saying “Hungary sold and indebted” while…