The green Politics Can Be Different (LMP) party seeks to become a parliamentary force rather than a governing party and has therefore decided not to nominate a prime minister candidate for the upcoming general elections, a senior LMP official told national daily Nepszabadsag on Tuesday.
Andras Schiffer, who is topping the party’s national list for the elections, said that LMP sees a strong need for reforming the current system of party financing, which has so far been torpedoed by both the opposition and the ruling Socialists. Should LMP become a parliamentary party, he said, none of its MPs will have an interest in opposing that reform.
“In what LMP also differs from the current parliamentary parties is that its approach to other parties is not burdened by the wars that poisoned public life over the past 20 years,” he said.
Founded in 2009, LMP made a spectacular debut on Hungary’s political scene by winning 2.6 percent of votes during the European parliamentary elections last June.
