June 6th, 2012

Socialists could win two-thirds majority in 2014 on the back of new electoral system, says Népszava

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The election system has become so warped that the opposition Socialists could stand just as good a chance of securing a two-thirds majority in parliament in the 2014 general election as ruling Fidesz, a party official told daily Nepszava on Wednesday.

The party’s Budapest chairman, Zsolt Nemeth, said that a gain of 30-35 percent of the vote could prove sufficient for a sweeping victory, the paper said. He also said that the Socialists were increasingly popular in the capital.

A recent Tarki poll put the Socialists almost neck-and-neck with the ruling conservative alliance led by Fidesz.

Molnar said if the requirement to register in order to vote ended up being enforced, general voting rights would not be guaranteed to residents who must travel twenty or thirty kilometres to cast their ballots.

MTI (Magyar Távirati Iroda) is the Hungarian news agency.
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  • Cogito

    Oh, so the new electoral law is not a fascist law after all, it is not helping and/or cementing a Fidesz victory in the next elections, as the Nepszava, the Nepszabadsag and the HVG (and their political masters in the MSZ(M)P and PMP) have made everyone believe in the Western media, at the EU, the IMF, and in the US government?

    And you guys are “concerned” about the severity of the political divide in Hungary? The fact is that it is very hard to find appropriate and fitting description for this kind of behaviour and attitude. It could start with something like: disgusting bunch of subhuman liars and cheaters ….

    • Leto

      “this kind of behaviour and attitude”

      That’s what I use the “postcommie” phrase for. The descriptive part (and more!) fits well.

      • Aloof

        Better tell your US consultants to start making their money or just cut a deal with Jobbik which I would imagine is already in the works. If it isn’t better get on it.

        • Cogito

          And your point was? :) Oh, you were just passing wind again …

          • Aloof

            Some days you actually make some sense and some very good points. Today is not one of them… We all have off days man. It’s OK.

          • Cogito

            @ Aloof

            Yes, there are days when others make more sense than on some other days, and there days when we are able to make more sense of others’ statments than on some other days. :)

  • Cnut

    It would be somewhat ironic, if Fidesz builds up its whole orange communist dictatorship just in order for MSZP to be able to really reap the benefits. Better award some more long term contracts to Közgép now guys.

  • Géza

    if the socialist really would secure a two-thirds majority in parliament in the 2014 general election, it would be a huge disaster for the country…in many different ways.

    Ofcourse they are liars with a international/globalist agenda.

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