April 7th, 2009

New Socialist boss says she expects new faces in cabinet

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Many people on the left wing would prefer to forget the past two weeks, new Socialist Party leader Ildikó Lendvai said in an interview with Népszabadság on Monday.

Regarding the Gordon Bajnai cabinet, she said new faces will run key ministries, but several Socialist ministers will keep their posts, she said, without naming names.

Outgoing Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány has not been sidelined in the party, she continued, but is taking another role, a very important one, by agreeing to run the affiliated Táncsics Mihály Foundation.

“If I were to write a history of the Socialist Party, I would write that Gyurcsány was the first who was able to build a truly forceful intellectual movement on the left wing,” Lendvai said.

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4 Comments

  1. Bacsi says:
    April 8, 2009 at 11:27 am

    As long as they are honest and word for Hungary instead of their own bank balances……
    I don’t see any problem with new faces???

  2. Stan says:
    April 8, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Beware of familiar faces in Hungarian politics.
    89.7% of known political figures are evil, dumb or both. The other half may go either way…

  3. Hilda says:
    April 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Lendvai is sick. But her bank balance is healthy!
    “Intellectual movement and truly forceful movementment on the left wing”? Couurtesy of Gyurscany Ferenc! Pantomime, circus, zoo, and farce, all rolled into one big ‘goulash’ of a catastrophe.
    Tumbril time and to the guillotine with these political arseholes.

  4. JD says:
    April 9, 2009 at 9:41 am

    “If I were to write a history of the Socialist Party …………”
    Is would be a load of lying, makebelieve crap and I hope you never get the chance.
    What she really meant to say was
    “If were to write a cheque for some cash to pay for my new kitchen, all I need to do is suck off my forceful master Gyurcsány (who was my first) whilst taking Bajnai’s movement up my left wing. Yep that oughta do it”
    Wow the cronyism and arse licking in Hungarian politics is an absolute joke.