March 5th, 2010

Ruling Socialists initiate debate with opposition next week

Ministers of the ruling Socialists invite experts of the main opposition Fidesz party for three policy debates next week, the Socialist prime minister candidate confirmed MTI’s information on Thursday.

The first debate on next Tuesday would be held on social policy and welfare, including pensions, Attila Mesterhazy said.

The topic planned to be discussed on Wednesday is agriculture and on Thursday economic policy, he said.

In a February 17 video message posted on YouTube and Facebook, Mesterhazy asked Fidesz leader Viktor Orban to delegate experts of his party to public policy debates with Socialists on the topics of health, education, economic policy and defence between February 22 and March 15.

Meeting entrepreneurs earlier this week, Orban said that instead of new policy programmes, Hungary should adopt a totally new economic policy and a different way of thinking.

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  1. BIG JIM says:

    At the risk of sounding like a Fidesz supporter, I have to ask why Orban would bother with Senkiházy and the rest of these MSZP losers want to talk about. The Communists are dog meat. Appearing with these losers and potential jailbirds would be idiotic.

  2. Viking says:

    why Orban would bother with Senkiházy and the rest of these MSZP losers want to talk about
    BIG JIM at March 5, 2010 11:53 AM

    Do we see any Fidesz – Jobbik debates?
    Or should it be Zsidesz – Jobbik debates?
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    Who ever than Mark used the term “Senkiházy” on this site…?
    As I written before – ‘BIG JIM’ is just ‘Mark’ a bit less ‘Beju’, but it is probably the same guy all the time
    Another of Ricsi’s old friends from StormFront

  3. Realizing that I may be wasting my time since only Elle and Law can vote in Hungary’s upcoming election and they do not need convincing, it is still an interesting explore why it would be meaningless to debate with Senkiházy. BTW, Mark says hi to the village idiot.
    One can like or hate Orban or Vona but today they are the only two real party leaders contending to be Hungary’s next Prime Minister. Senkiházy is senki. Lendvai, the Botox Woman and Gyurcsany the discredited former PM could have picked anyone to be the Communists’ candidate just as they picked the common criminal Bajnai. The party faithful, those old Stalinist relics would have rubber stamped anyone because their Communist party discipline comes first.
    Orban is very fortunate that a large percentage of Hungarian voters are uncertain about Jobbik’s ability to govern Hungary. They are mistaken but their mistaken belief will keep many of them from voting for Jobbik who like Jobbik’s courageous and uncompromising stand for Hungarian interests. Jobbik is able and ready to govern and do it much better than Fidesz but that is not the point. The point is Orban or Vona are the leaders of their parties and Senkiházy is senki. If anyone is confused, senki is Hungarian for nobody.
    Orban managed to lose a couple of elections to the Communists but this time, even he cannot lose. The Communists, they like to be called Socialists or Liberals but I have even better names for them, are despised by almost everyone and not even Orban can lose this election. The Communists can try to hide behind Senkiházy’s youthful appearance but everyone can see the Botox Woman and the rest of the old discredited Communists behind him. Senkiházy gets no respect and that is exactly as much respect as he deserves.

  4. Viking says:

    One can like or hate Orban or Vona but today they are the only two real party leaders contending to be Hungary’s next Prime Minister
    BIG JIM ON SENKIHÁZY at March 6, 2010 10:52 AM

    To claim that Gábor Zázrivecz (aka Vona) is a real contender for PM for the period 2010-14 is a ‘bit optimistic’ to put it nicely
    In all polls so far MSZP still leads Jobbik, so take away Mesterhazy from the race as Mark has done, does not correlate to the real situation on the ground at the moment
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    That anyone except Viktor would be PM for at least a few months would be a big surprise
    The right-wing name-shifter will not be part of that surprise
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    A more likely scenario could be that Navrancics replaces Viktor as PM after a few months, when Viktor accepts ‘The Request of the Hungarian People’ and becomes the next President, paired with a new Constitution that would give the President of the Hungarian Republic more power than today
    The current President, Solymon’s, term finishes this August