The Socialist party’s prime minister nominee, Gordon Bajnai, said on Monday that he would start consulting business and political groups — including all parliamentary parties — on measures to tackle the economic crisis.
Bajnai told a news conference in parliament said he sought broad support for his reform programme.
“It does not matter whether someone belongs to the right or to the left […] I want to be partner and cooperate with everyone,” Bajnai said.
The leader of the main opposition conservative party Fidesz, Viktor Orban, said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that the party demands early elections.
Bajnai said that early elections were not the “solution of the devil”, but a crisis government would have to act fast and measures which had already been thought through would be the better option for the country, provided they had the support of a parliamentary majority.
Socialist MP Csaba Horvath told journalists on Monday that Bajnai had asked deputies of the parliamentary group of the Socialist party and other parties to sign up to his reform and crisis-management programme.
Horvath said this would be a “symbolic gesture”.
“They don’t know whether they will have to actually sign a contract or give their stamp of approval for his programme in a parliamentary vote,” he said.
He said that at a party group meeting on Sunday evening, three-quarters of the group had been present and had unanimously voted to support Bajnai’s programme.
The party will meet on April 5 to formally vote for Bajnai as their candidate to replace Ferenc Gyurcsany as prime minister. A parliamentary vote is expected to follow later in the month.
The liberal Free Democrats announced early on Monday that they had decided to support Bajnai’s nomination.
At least his more handsome than Gyurcsány or Orban, but since it’s
not a beauty contest and he is even unpopular within his party, so
with zilch support I’d give him 60-90 days to fall, my latest betis
afer the EP elections…
Yeah…today we had Bajnai telling us that he wants everyone to
start working together for the good of Hungary. Can someone
enlighten us as to what he’s been doing for the last God-knows
how long as a minister? Who was he working for then, then?!
Have people forgotten that he’s as tainted as the other thieves
in the gang? Let’s not forget that whilst everyone keeps turning
up on TV saying that early elections are nothing to be feared,
the parties that might resaonably be expected to fear being
kicked out of their cushy offices are rushing about, falling over
themselves in an attempt to actually avoid the prospect of early
elections. We’ve got the laughable sight of Dávid Ibolya, the
country’s most recognisable whore, proclaiming that she would
be prepared to serve as a minister (even if she destroys her
party in the meantime), and we have to watch as the rest of the
country acts as though her decision was made in a bubble,
rather than as a result of her realising that she’ll soon be back
selling her wares on the street, if she doesn’t grab a chair! Let’s
not forget that the SZDSZ’s original quip regarding the
announcement of Bajnai was “attack of the clones!”. Very witty
and all that but, barely 18 hours later, we’re expected to have
forgotten that Bajnai’s announcement was greeted with anything
less than rapturous adoration. Switch the channel, there are only
a couple of channels worth watching.
He is the Minister of ECONOMY…. you know the thing what
collapsed when he was the Minister…
Oh dear, business as usual it seems, another vapid self serving imbecile to cock up the country even further, how foolish i was to even dream for a moment that things might improve.
what odds can i get on total economic collapse before autumn?