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February 9th, 2009

Liberals announce list of candidates for EP elections

By MTI

Hungary’s small opposition liberal party has selected its candidates to field in the European Parliamentary election, leader of the Free Democrats (SZDSZ) Gabor Fodor said on Saturday.

Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, the party’s chief foreign policy expert, heads the list, followed by Gabriella Beki, Gabor Demszky, Budapest’s mayor, Viktoria Mohacsi, who is currently an MEP who specialises in minority issues, and Gyorgy Konrad, a writer.

Fodor said that the party would emphasise liberal values in its election campaign. He said the party wanted the country to return to values held dear at the time of the change in political system in 1989-90, namely that its society should be open and tolerant rather than xenophobic, inward-looking and full of hate.

The Free Democrats currently have two representatives in the European legislative chamber out of 24 Hungarian MEPs.

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4 Comments

  1. mawar says:
    February 9, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    No, thank you from your liberal values!! And stuff it!

  2. hello says:
    February 9, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    The hell with with your liberal values!!
    Greeting mawar!!

  3. mawar says:
    February 9, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    You see this error occured:
    Can’t call method “entry_based” on an undefined value at lib/MT/Template/ContextHandlers.pm line 4547.
    Greetings to all!!!

  4. Erik says:
    February 9, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Yeah, we are having a nice little software meltdown today. Try using Internet Explorer, which seems to be doing better.