Former ambassador to Washington Andras Simonyi is planned to top the Budapest list of conservative opposition MDF party candidates in the 2010 general elections, daily Nepszava said on Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources.
The paper also said that MDF and the liberal opposition Free Democrats had been in talks about liberal candidates running on an MDF ballot line, though representatives of both parties have denied this.
If adequate financial compensation is received, nobody in MDF would raise objections against Free Democrats running in MDF colours, the paper said.
Originally, a liberal politician was alleged to have been given first place on the Budapest list, but party leader Ibolya David will instead give the position to Simonyi. The second place would go to MDF deputy leader Karoly Herenyi, followed by Budapest deputy mayor, of the Free Democrats, Imre Ikvai-Szabo, and Free Democrat MP Andras Boruzs, the paper said.
According to the paper, Free Democrats leader Attila Retkes has good chances to occupy 7th place on MDF’s national list.
“If adequate financial compensation is received, nobody in MDF would raise objections against Free Democrats running in MDF colours”
Didn’t we learn through Koka János that it is a party platfom is not something that can be bought and sold in Hungary?
Yes, I also wondered about that sentence.
At the moment all is just ‘rumours’, we will see what comes out of it.
You gotta be kidding when you call MDF
‘conservative’. It is anything, but. Once I saw
Simonyi at a function in Chicago. The guy refused to
talk to or commingle with the ‘average people’
Both parties should really think what they did to
Hungary when they made that shameful pact after the
blockade of the cab drivers in 1990. They should
both fade to oblivion.
“Fade into oblivion” I thought they already had.
Bokros for prime minister just about said it all.
The Groucho Marx look-alike has had his day. And should of retired gracefully along with his non-descript friend, Ibolya David.
Comedy of Errors, Circus of Clowns, Theater of empty dreams and promises. Hungarian politics at its very best.
shameful pact after the
blockade of the cab drivers in 1990. They should
both fade to oblivion.
Roamerw1970 at January 14, 2010 3:20 PM
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Which pact was that?
One must remember that MDF of 1990 is not MDF of 2010. MDF was the biggest party after the General Elections in the Spring of 1990 and it had many strange people inside. Csurka Istvan, who later started MIEP, is one, even Budahazy was a member.
Many of the old MDF-guard has left for mainly Fidesz, so if the politics were bad, then you will find those guys responsible mostly in Fidesz today.
The time of 1990-1994, the first freely elected Government since 1945, was marred with corruption scandals around Privatisation Projects (nothing new there today either).
The new MSZP had only 33 seats in the Parliament. In 1994 they won the elections and ran the Government for 4 years. During that time Bokross came into the picture and executed the austerity measures for the MSZP-Government as an independent. Bokross was Orban Viktor’s proposal to replace Gyurcsany in the Autumn of 2006, when Fidesz wanted a ‘Technocrat Government’.
I found this old link that gives some ‘now-spirit’ to the 1990 Taxi-blockade that made guys like Budahazy an household name in Hungary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/28/world/evolution-in-europe-gas-price-protest-cripples-hungary.html?pagewanted=1
I made the point several times recently that its not only the government that needs to be changed but we will also need a new breed of politician – both enterprising and honest.
Judging by what Viking has revealed in his last posting it seems that we are to get a new government but, with the same old inmates, running the asylum!