As expected, over the weekend Hungary’s Socialists officially picked replacements for both prime minister and party leader. (Both positions had been held by Ferenc Gyurcsány, who within a few short days is expected to be shuffled off to a party-financed foundation.) Taking Gyurcsány’s spot as PM will be current Economy Minister Gordon Bajnai (left), while MSZP parliamentary caucus leader Ildikó Lendvai (right) will be taking command of the party.
Rather than a long and embittered post about how dispiriting the two appointments are, we’ll make this short and embittered, by focusing on one key detail of each person’s biography:
- Before being tapped as prime minister Bajnai oversaw the disbursal of trillions of forints in money given directly to privately-owned companies as subsidies or grants, much of it shielded from public scrutiny due to an alleged need for “commercial secrecy.”
- Lendvai once ran the MSZMP Központi Bizottság kulturális alosztály (Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party Central Cultural Security Office) and thus one of the country’s top censors. She got the job in 1984.
Just as screwed as us Americans, we feel your pain. Giving money to big companies and banks, Govt listening in on private phone calls. Nothing new though, it has been going on for years only it is for a much grander scheme now for the sake of 911 and the recent American banking thieves hideous failures.
These people are pure filth. They obviously see it as their right and
their duty to continue shafting the long-suffering Hungarians and
rubbing their noses in it. Austerity measures? Aren’t we currently
enjoying the austerity measures put in place by Kim Il Gyurscany?
Er, who voted for the kleptocrat Bajnai and his doomed-to-failure
package anyway?
Public funds being redirected to the personal bank accounts of politicians? How strange? Surely not.
We are still wanting to know where Gyurcsany (or his successor) have hidden the 42 Billion euros given to Hungary some months ago?!
Rural Hungary is Bankrupt. Schools closing, roads in appaling condition, no work, poor transport,
No signs of things improving although large amounts of money have poured into Hungary recently. And the number of scandals regarding both politicians and publics officials escalate by the day.
Bajnai and Lendvai should make the acquaintance of the same lampost Mussolini decorated.
You know what, these politicians, Bajnai, Gyurcsany etc have spent so much time with their cocks firmly between each others butt cheeks they’ve forgotten what it means to actually achieve on their own merit.
The whole thing stinks. They are more corrupt than can be fathomed, and the worst thing is, as with most of their performance, they only need to do a medeocre job of covering it up.
Why? Because they can, and whatcha gonna do about it?
Exactly, there is not a single decent alternative. They are all the most useless bags of steaming turds this world has produced, all getting together to talk shit for endless hours in the houses of parliament and do absolutely nothing. Sadly, this trait must be genetic since almost every f&ckin Hungarian I meet is the same.
The best thing the IMF and Europe could do is tell Hungary to f@ck off and go and sort its economy out. The longer they keep handing out cash to sustain the non-sense going on here, the less chance is that it will ever be fixed.
Let North Korea test a few of their “satellite” payloads here, it would only do about 500HUF of damage. Even the birds fly upsidedown cos there’s nothing worse shitting on.
Phooo, I feel much better now.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the Magyar way…
So more criminals get their chance at the top of the MSZP maffia!
Political kurva Lendvai and Mr. Lets Divide the IMF and EU money between ourselves Bajnai.
Other than being a disgusting ex commie snitch, she also has the Hungary’s most irritating voice and a face to match.
I have given up on Hungary finding a way out of this mess without something very racical happining. You can nor treat cancer with an aspirin!
IT’s just the final game of this tragedy… Gyurcsany and his crew
retreats with filled pockets and the second best line gets in front,
so they will loose the elections and taking the blame, it’s just
simple skapegoat making… Btw Lendvai is the funniest clown in
Hungarian politics, she is the “talking machine” of Gyurcsany’s
gang. Whenever there wre a skandal she’s been sent to speak on
tv, she can talk forever without saying anything or just making the
smallest sense. She is the more agressive than wise a little
“sarahpalinesqe” cariier politition/ part time slot of hours on the
peak of her carrier… what a pity. (Bajnai is simple a well payed
blametaker, “there is enough money in the word to take this
uncomfortable position, my parrents and family lives in Austria
anyway…” kinda guy.)