Socialist Party Left Wing Section chairman and deputy party chairman Péter Kiss stressed the need to continue with the ongoing party reforms on Saturday. “The truth will not always blaze its own trail, nor automatically become the truth of the majority,” he said.
Kiss said he agrees with the health insurance system reform and the establishment of the multi-player system, and criticised Fidesz for “rendering discourse impossible,” and for “co-operating with extremists.”
Fidesz deputy spokesman András Cser-Palkovics responded that “the left-wing nature of the Socialist party’s Left Wing Section mostly expresses itself with ‘blah-blah’ reform language and slinging mud at its political rivals.” He said “it would have been a far more left-wing act to speak up against the introduction of the multi-player health insurance system, as well as the austerity measures afflicting Hungarian families and enterprises.”
Speaker Katalin Szili reportedly caused a surprise by leaving the Peoples’ Section and joining the Socialist Section in recent days. Unidentified Socialists said Szili may be looking for the blessing of potential “kingmakers.”
