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January 19th, 2010

Liberal leader seeks centrist coalition

By MTI

Hungary’s liberal Free Democrats are seeking to cooperate with several centrist parties in the hope of heading off what current polls indicate will be a three-party parliament, with conservative Fidesz and radical Jobbik on the right facing the Socialist party on the left, the Free Democrat leader told MTI.

Besides holding election-pact talks with the Democratic Forum, a small conservative party, the liberals are also seeking an alliance with the Centrum party and other smaller entities with the aim of securing around 10 percent of the vote.

Polls suggest that the 10 percent target appears ambitious: both the liberals and the Democratic Forum have around 1-2 percent backing each, while support for the other even smaller parties are negligible.

Attila Retkes, the Free Dem’s leader, said that any agreement to form an alliance would not mean the end of the liberal party. He said the party would stay independent and he would seek to strengthen it.

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  1. Viking says:
    January 19, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    Attila Retkes, the Free Dem’s leader, said that any agreement to form an alliance would not mean the end of the liberal party. He said the party would stay independent and he would seek to strengthen it
    —
    They are trying to do a ‘Jobbik’, that in 2006 went in election alliance with MIEP and came out as a winner of that alliance.