February 17, 2009, 17:16 CET
PM downgrades "fuck-up" to "serious mistake"
Perhaps because of the examples set by Barack Obama (and before him John McCain), it is now fashionable for politicians to admit they have "screwed up." Now Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány seems to be trying to get in on the action, admitting in his TV address yesterday that he should have been more honest with the Hungarian people way back in 2006. "Three years ago, I made a grave mistake, I did not stand before you and tell you that things cannot go on as before," he told the nation, prior to introducing his new, new tax program. Though in Gyurcsány's case, he is unlikely to get any credit now for admitting to having screwed up, given that back in '06 he already admitted (to a more select group of listeners) that his government had out-and-out "fucked up" (elkúrtuk). Plus, he's still screwing around and fucking up.
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I wish he would get lost already.
To gaze upon Gyurcsány for the first time you might be forgiven for mistaking him for a teacher at a provincial school. Unfortunately this is not the case. Millions of Hungarians went to the ballot box and elected him prime minister.
During his reign the country has sunk to hitherto unknown depths.
If the Hungarian nation once believed this man was the right choice to lead them..it is only those who still believe it that will accompany
him to the same institution for a medical check-up!
Forgive me if I am incorrect but I don't think that Frank was elected by millions of Hungarians. Don't the people select local representatives for parliament who in turn choose their leader?
C'est moi- no people vote for a party and that party makes all the decisions. Now the real question is who runs the party? "Frank" as you call him is merely a representative for the party.
Hmmmm, Thanks, I thought that was the way a parliamentary government worked, like the US house. Franky is kind of like the Hungarian Nancy Pelosi, very loosely put.
OK.My mistake! The Hungarian people cannot be blamed for electing 'Frank'.
The situation is as follows then: an unelected leader, with a minority government, and, to my knowledge no clear manifesto either before or after the election to...etc etc
It matters not, anyway, how he got to be leader. It,s what he has achieved in the meantime that counts. The complete demise of a proud nation that is fast sinking into oblivion. THE END.
Mr. Williams, you were right the first time, HMMM has it wrong and C’est moi re-mains confused: People who voted Socialist knew they were voting for Gyurc-sány for prime minister in 2006. (Though it has to be said that many were not so much voting FOR him as AGAINST Orbán.)
Like him or not, he was democratically elected by the Hungarian people.