Since being associated with the Socialists has proven to be the kiss of death in these elections, District XI mayor Gyula Molnár has removed everything from his campaign fliers that might associate him with the party he belongs to, mno.hu reports. But not only did Molnár hide his party affiliation, he has placed the LMP’s slogan of “politics can be different” on the flier to try and be associated with the other party of the left that the majority of the country doesn’t despise. The LMP for their part did not consider this a compliment.
UPDATE: In light of this and another poster using the LMP’s slogan, the LMP have said they will report the Socialists to the National Elections Committee for deliberately misleading voters, hirszerzo.hu reports.
Interesting if a slogan can be ‘copyrighted’?
If so, I will copyright all political slogans and sell their usage to the highest bidder
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On a related note, at least before, like 2006 Gyula Molnár was regarded as a rather ‘reasonable politician’ by Jobbik, a guy that you could make deals with
I think it was more due to who was the Fidesz guy was regarded to be a Jew and Liberal
Hard to know which one was the worst
god they are pathetic! i keep forgetting which is the “undemocratic” party here, as evidence keeps contradicting what the media told me. campaign spending limits, voter databases, dishonest advertising…
how many rules does a party have to break before they qualify as “undemocratic”?
how many rules does a party have to break before they qualify as “undemocratic”?
Paul at April 19, 2010 2:29 PM
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The ‘breaking of rules’ is only after a legal body has decided so
So far, which rules have been deemed broken?
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The Fidesz voter-db not, then the prosecutor dropped that case, so what is left?
Viking: “The ‘breaking of rules’ is only after a legal body has decided so”
except when its jobbik – in which case, wild, unsupported accusations in the media are enough to make them “undemocratic”, right? ask the new US ambassador, or Attila Mesterházy. im not sure which legal body’s ruling they based their accusations on.
i personally don’t need a “legal body” to tell me that this is dishonest advertising, or that fidesz’s voter database is dishonest if not illegal (even if by some technicality they have not been punished for it), or that there is something wrong with fidesz and mszp both shameless exceeding the legal campaign spending limit. just because they aren’t punished, doesn’t mean they didn’t break the law. certainly, none of these are the actions of democracy-respecting parties. so yes, they did “break the rules” of free parliamentary democracy.
so yes, they did “break the rules” of free parliamentary democracy.
Anonymous at April 19, 2010 3:27 PM
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Legally or not, there is still a question of moral
I think though it is a difference of using the slogan from another party and using a ‘voter-db’
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There is a sign of something when several of the big parties ‘bend/break the rules’ but still refuse to agree upon changing them into something workable, like the campaign spending limit
Every one knows that they are too small and it was proposed to adjust them and limiting ‘hidden’ contributions, but they could just not agree, then no party wanted to be accused of wanting to spend more officially
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Blowing the Jobbik horn in this area is rather stupid, when Jobbik has not come clean about the contributions to them
The only party that stands out is LMP, so they are the only ‘democratic’ party then?