The liberal party has no real community of interest with the right-of-centre Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties, and can strongly influence governing Socialist party legislation from the outside, so it makes no sense for it to court the right, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany wrote in his Internet blog on Tuesday.
As far as European and national issues are concerned, platforms of the liberal Free Democrats and the Socialists are very close to one another. We are both patriotic Europeans and neither of us can stand authoritarianism, primitive anti-capitalism, or isolationist chauvinism, he wrote.
There was no objective reason why Hungarian political life split down the middle, but it did, and that leaves the Socialists and liberals with common thought patterns along with the small conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum party. What these parties make up is “a measure of democratic centralism …with an essentially modernization-bent character,” he wrote.
In contrast is Fidesz and its Christian Democrat ally, which have integrated the right wing, “whose mentality and way of thinking are very distant from the way we think of Hungary. That would not be a problem if it weren’t combined with a right-wing attitude that rejects everyone who thinks differently as a traitor who has no business in the national or political community”.
This is what expands the gap between us, the PM wrote, not the fact that we think differently.
