Doubts about Bajnai’s centrist strategy
Commentators ponder the possible impact of Gordon Bajnai’s plans to create a centrist anti-Fidesz electoral alliance. Both left and right-wing analysts are skeptical about the potential success of...
View ArticleLMP to decide whether to join ‘Together 2014’
Analysts believe that the green party which has so far emphasized its centrist identity, will soon have to decide whether or not to join the left-wing alliance. Both options are considered extremely...
View ArticleLMP’s decision not to join Together-2014 draws criticism and praise
While centre-left columnists find the decision self-destructive, and suggest that it plays into the hands of Fidesz, centre-right bloggers celebrate it as a triumph of principles over political...
View ArticleFurther reactions to LMP’s decision
A pro-government daily writes that it was a question of principle for the LMP to reject Gordon Bajnai’s invitation to join his Together-2014 electoral alliance, even though it might lead to the demise...
View ArticleLMP leader accused of ’double talk’ on Roma
An independent blogger defends LMP leader András Schiffer from liberal critics who accuse him of double talk in connection with anti-Roma racism. Reacting to a newspaper article widely criticised as...
View ArticleLMP splits over co-operation with Bajnai and Co.
A leading LMP member suggests in a right wing paper that other political forces are at work behind the internal tensions in his party, while a centre-left commentator writes that the LMP’s plans to...
View ArticleWill LMP disappear after the split?
Left-wing commentators believe those who have left LMP to join a left-wing alliance will have a future, while the remaining majority is doomed, at least morally. A right-wing columnist hopes LMP can...
View ArticleLMP split still in focus
Two days after four prominent members left the LMP to join an opposition alliance, their decision still catches the headlines. Columnists disagree, however, on whether the LMP story will have an impact...
View ArticleBajnai’s new party loses an ally
Left-wing commentators agree that Milla had good reasons not to join Gordon Bajnai’s new party, but their decision is yet another sign of how difficult it is for centre-left organizations and splinter...
View ArticleGovernment widens its lead
Right-wing columnists review the latest opinion polls, and conclude that the opposition parties are unlikely to challenge the governing coalition at the 2014 parliamentary elections. According to the...
View ArticleFragmented opposition with no vision
A left-wing analyst thinks efforts to forge an opposition coalition have failed so far and urges all “’democratic anti-Fidesz forces” to come up with a left-liberal-green vision for the post-Orbán era....
View ArticleMarginal opposition is small but heterogeneous
A conservative analyst suggests that the LMP is gathering people with surprisingly disparate opinions, but they have one thing in common: they all risk not making it into the new parliament next year....
View ArticleOpposition unity – not easy!
The leading right-wing daily paints a desolate picture of the state of the left wing opposition – less than one year before the next elections. In her Magyar Nemzet editorial, Matild Torkos argues that...
View ArticleJobbik accuses Orbán of high treason
Commenting on the noisy occupation of the Speaker’s rostrum staged by right-wing radical MPs in Parliament, a pro-government columnist compares Jobbik to the Jacobins who plunged Paris into a spiral of...
View ArticleRuminations on sexist statement in Parliament
Commenting on a crude statement made by a Fidesz State Secretary, left-wing pundits accuse the right-wing politician of fomenting male chauvinism and sexism. A pro-government columnist also criticizes...
View ArticleA conservative about to vote for LMP
A conservative commentator thinks another two-thirds majority would be too much and advocates voting for LMP. In the center-right Mandiner, András Stumpf, a leading young journalist of pro-government...
View ArticleLMP accused of complicity with Fidesz
A fiery liberal pundit alleges that Viktor Orbán owes his two thirds majority to Hungary’s Green Party. Zsófia Mihancsik scorns a young analyst who claimed that voting LMP would help prevent the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliamentary election campaign in top gear
A conservative commentator criticizes Jobbik’s anti-EU rhetoric by pointing out that Hungary has received thousands of billion Forints in EU cohesion funds. A liberal pundit scorns left and far-right...
View ArticleHigh opposition stakes at the EP election
A centrist political analyst believes that the European Parliamentary election is important primarily for the opposition parties. The European Parliamentary election is more about Hungarian politics...
View ArticleLiberal pundit cautions against minimum wage hike
A liberal columnist contends that the Left’s welfare promises are unrealistic and irresponsible. He suggests out that left-wing parties want to significantly increase government spending while at the...
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