“It is a shame for Hungary that after seven years of poor governing a fallen prime minister wants to say what should happen in the future,” Fidesz spokesman Péter Szíjjártó told reporters on Sunday.
“Tomorrow we shall initiate the dissolution of Parliament and provide an opportunity for holding parliamentary elections concurrent with the EP elections,” he pledged.
“Fidesz has no intention of holding talks: we shall not take part in any bargaining, backstairs dealing, or any kind of power sharing. We want to put the possibility of deciding on the future back into the hands of people,” he added.
“A fallen prime minister wants to set up a government in Hungary, but this is intolerable,” he said. “Only a government with a strong and clear-cut social mandate can be established in a democracy,” he added.
“Hungary has been afflicted more gravely by the recession than any other country because it arrived at the door of the crisis extremely weakened by seven years of Free Democrat and Socialist government. The Socialists have had seven years to prove their worth, and now jobs are being lost, people are living in uncertainty, the economy is in ruins, state debt is soaring and Hungary is close to bankruptcy: anarchy, chaos prevail in the country,” Szíjjártó opined.
Jobbik chairman Gábor Vona sent an open letter to Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán on Saturday after Gyurcsány offered to resign. He said Fidesz and Jobbik do not agree on a number of strategic issues, but their goal is common in one thing: that this gang of robbers must not continue to run the country, either with Gyurcsány or anybody else.
He said because of political interests there is no way to call early elections in parliament so the only remaining possibility is to exert pressure on politicians from the street and Jobbik is ready to mobilise its members, supports saving the nation and asks Orbán to do the same, because an historic opportunity must not be missed. Fidesz did not respond.
“people are living in uncertainty, the economy is in ruins, state debt is soaring and Hungary is close to bankruptcy: anarchy, chaos prevail in the country,” Szíjjártó opined.”
Very serious stuff indeed!
Here is a bit of light entertainment: Hungarian state lends tycoon money to bet on Russian lottery
News of the Hungarian state’s bankruptcy may indeed be premature, because it seems that the publicly-owned Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) has enough loose cash to lend €82 million to a local tycoon – so can buy a lottery company in Russia. According to napi.hu, the MFB is extending mogul Sándor Demján the dough so he can complete his previously announced €200 million purchase of a controlling stake in national gaming firm Orglot.
We’d normally complain about the injustice of using scant public funds to finance a rich man’s business empire building, except given how the Hungarian state usually throws money away, a bet on the Russian lottery is probably the best investment we could hope for. Still, seems a little dicey.