The election of a new chairman has not solved the problems of the Free Democrats, internal fighting will continue, analysts of two think-tanks agreed on Sunday, after the party elected new leaders.
The new chairman, Attila Retkes, has been one of three contenders practically unknown in the country and by electing him the party’s future has not yet been defined, said Orsolya Szomszed of Nezopont Institute. She said it was still hard to know whether a total collapse of the party could be avoided by simply electing a new leader.
The election of new leaders is not a solution, but part of the problem, Attila Gyula of Political Capital viewed. He said that in a new feature of the party’s crisis the whole election had not been about the programme of the candidates but about who had been behind them. He said that he expected a division between the party’s parliamentary group led by Janos Koka and the party itself headed now by Retkes to remain.
Szomszed agreed saying that as long as Koka remained to lead the parliamentary group the party would be divided since it could choose to go against party decisions.
They agreed that no major turnaround could be expected in the party’s support of the government.
