The Hungarian Socialist Party at a crossroads
Every time journalists tell Attila Mesterházy, chairman of MSZP, that something is very wrong with the socialist party because, although Fidesz is rapidly losing ground support for the socialist party...
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The Hungarian opposition has awakened. What comes next?
Hungarian commentators who follow politics very carefully and whose opinion I trust kept saying all along that cooperation among the diverse opposition groups would materialize because it cannot be...
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Gordon Bajnai blinked: He is ready to accept the thirty-five districts...
The somewhat surprising developments that occurred on Friday afternoon during the meeting between Attila Mesterházy, chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), and Gordon Bajnai, former prime...
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Regrouping on the left: MSZP on the brink
In the wake of the EU parliamentary election the non-Hungarian media will undoubtedly be preoccupied with the fact that the second largest party in Hungary is an extreme-right, racist, anti-Semitic...
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The exit of Attila Mesterházy, chairman of the Hungarian socialists
The drama was of short duration. On Tuesday Attila Mesterházy, chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party, seemed to be certain that he would remain the leader of MSZP and the whip of the party’s...
View ArticleFerenc Gyurcsány, the mafia state, and the future of MSZP
Today Ferenc Gyurcsány, the former prime minister of Hungary and chairman of the Demokratikus Koalíció (DK), released a 20-page political pamphlet, gave a few interviews, and delivered a 45-minute...
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László Botka has taken things into his own hands in MSZP
Yesterday I ended my post saying that, because only a few hours had passed since MSZP submitted its own proposal for a new bill that would regulate political advertising, I was unable to gauge the...
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Whither MSZP? It seems to be stalled
Before going into the latest follies of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), I should briefly summarize the findings of the most recent opinion polls in order to illustrate the true state of the...
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