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June 9th, 2009

Bokros may quit newly-won EP seat to drive MDF general election campaign

By MTI

The new poster boy of Hungary’s conservative opposition Democratic Forum (MDF) Lajos Bokros, who is credited with helping the party stay afloat in European elections, is expected to remain an MEP only for a few months, national daily Magyar Hirlap reported on Tuesday.

Bokros, a former Socialist finance minister in charge of painful austerity measures in the mid-1990s as well as the liberal Free Democrats’ prime minister candidate, was the flagship for MDF’s campaign, helping the party to win 5.3 percent of votes and one mandate in the EP.

After analysing the election results, MDF maintained that Bokros had attracted Free Democrat voters and that he could be used as a powerful tool in national elections in 2010. Hence the decision to replace Bokros as an MEP by the next-in-line Gyorgy Habsburg, the paper said.

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