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January 14th, 2010

Liberals will not field candidates in general elections

By Hungary Around the Clock

The Free Democrats will not stand at the parliamentary elections this year after signing an agreement with the Democratic Forum, Forum deputy chairman Károly Herényi told a press briefing on Wednesday.

He said several Free Democrat politicians will be put on the Forum’s electoral list and help the party with money and infrastructure. In return the liberals will field a politician to head the two parties’ list at the autumn local elections.

Herényi added that the Forum is “opening up” and “many organisations and parties have expressed agreement with the programme embodied by Forum prime ministerial candidate Lajos Bokros”.

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  1. Viking says:
    January 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    SO when I mentioned this scenario 6-12 months ago (do not remember) I was blasted that it could never happen because liberals would never work with MDF.
    Reality is of course different and what we are seeing is that the ‘Right-Liberals’ (Free Market Liberals) join the MDF Election band-wagon.
    Where the ‘Left-Liberals’ (Social Liberals) go is a good question. MSZP or LMP?
    Personally I think it is a good idea that a more normal European political party survives and can build on the situation that will exist April 12.
    The exact policies in each small issue will probably need to be ‘invented’, but compared to the populists that exist every where else in Hungarian politics, Left-2-Right, that will be small questions.

  2. Mark says:
    January 15, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    The real question is, will Herenyi and David be able to avoid going to prison?
    Even if they elected, their immunity could be revoked by the new 2/3 majority and they would have to answer to charges of corruption.
    So much for the best of MDF :-)

  3. Viking says:
    January 15, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    The real question is, will Herenyi and David be able to avoid going to prison?
    Mark at January 15, 2010 6:30 PM
    —
    You mean the ‘corruption’ it means resisting to give up your political identity and stand in attention behind Orban Viktor’s ass?