No enthusiasm on the left for the new electoral pact
Liberal columnists are highly sceptical about a new opposition pact which incorporates Ferenc Gyurcsány into Gordon Bajnai and Attila Mesterházy’s alliance. Some blame leading progressive intellectuals...
View ArticleProspects for the new opposition coalition
Left-wing pundits maintain that the new alliance is the only possible hope to challenge PM Orbán, albeit a rather slender one. Pro-government columnists consider the deal as proof that the left lacks...
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 ArticleControversial left-wing candidate in Miskolc
Columnists wonder whether it is acceptable and reasonable for the Left to support as a candidate for mayor of Miskolc a former police chief known for his highly controversial statements about Roma...
View ArticleGyurcsány’s call for a united leftist party rejected
A conservative commentator contends that former PM Gyurcsány’s proposal to unite the Left within a single party cannot be taken seriously. In an essay in Népszabadság, former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány...
View ArticleBajnai hired by a global investment firm
As former PM Bajnai is named Chief Operating Officer of the Paris based Meridiam investment firm, commentators on both the left and right agree that Bajnai is quitting politics. While a right-wing...
View ArticleAnti-immigration posters targeted
A pro-government columnist criticizes left-wing activists for defacing the government’s giant anti-immigration billboards. The leading anti-government daily, on the other hand, finds it abhorrent that...
View ArticleThe balance sheet of the migration dispute
Commentators ponder whether the dispute over migration will strengthen or weaken the governing party, and if the opposition can capitalize on the indignation stirred up by the government’s...
View ArticleEgyütt sides with Pope and Merkel over migration
A conservative commentator contends that the left-liberal party is condemning itself to oblivion by sticking its own announcements over the posters of the governing party advertising the ’quota...
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