June 3rd, 2009

Workers’ Party publishes EP election manifesto

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The Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party (MKM) promises to defend Hungarian workers and national culture, remain independent from both major parties and confront the rule of capital in its manifesto for the June 7 European parliamentary elections published on the party’s website on Tuesday.

The party aims to help a government come to power which will “contain the few hundred thousand” rich people of the country.

To this effect, MKM proposes introducing a more progressive taxation system which would impose taxes “on consumption rather than labour, wages and production”.

The Communists call for supporting domestic businesses and providing jobs for all who want to work.

To reduce Hungary’s energy dependency, MKM proposes constructing another nuclear power plant and nationalising the whole sector.

According to a recent poll, one percent of the electorate supports MKM.

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  1. Viking says:
    June 3, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Are we not missing a ‘not’ in this sentence
    “The party aims to help a government come to power which will “contain the few hundred thousand” rich people of the country. ”
    Otherwise, take away the Gendarmerie, they can switch programs with Jobbik.
    On the other hand they will probably want to take back the old use of ‘Interior Troops’, just to ‘secure the countryside’.