January 25th, 2008

Fidesz and Socialists deliver contradictory explanations on referendum

Fidesz and Socialist politicians were completely at odds over what is at stake in the upcoming referendum on banning tuition, visiting and daily hospital fees when they engaged in a debate on MTV’s “Nap-kelte” talk show Thursday morning.

Fidesz referendum campaign political leader István Tarlós told the talk show that Fidesz party chairman Viktor Orbán’s remark that the referendum is equivalent to an early election should not be “fatally misunderstood.” Tarlós said that Orbán was actually talking about “what decently and conscientious democratic governments would do.”

Socialist Party campaign political co-ordinator Ferenc Juhász meanwhile stressed that “the referendum is not about the future of the government, but about health care and higher educational reforms.”

Topics
Share
Comments
The All Hungary Media Group is firmly committed to freedom of expression and therefore applies a mostly "hands off" approach to comment moderation. Comments left by readers represent their own views and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or beliefs of the staff, editors or owner of the All Hungary Media Group, who nonetheless reserve the right to remove comments that are off-topic or which moderators consider to constitute "hate speech." Also note that in order to prevent spam we generally close entries off to comments several days after publication.

Comments are closed.