March 15 – LMP calls for opposition cooperation

The prime ministerial candidate of the green LMP party has called for cooperation between opposition parties, noting the young revolutionaries of 1848 who “may not have all liked each other but were able to work together for a common cause”.

At a commemoration marking the 170th anniversary of Hungary’s anti-Habsburg revolution on Thursday, Bernadett Szél warned that the opposition would not win the upcoming election “unless there is the broadest possible cooperation between its parties”.

“Most voters want to see a change of government,” she said. “There is no need to threaten each other; everyone must sit down at the negotiating table where LMP is already sitting.”

Referring to the 1848 slogans “independence, sovereignty, and autonomy”, Szél said:

“We must recapture our independence from politicians who have gradually stripped us of it.”