The Left is splitting: a new party is born again

There is a swarm of micro-parties cannot be polled on the left, despite of this the party- founding spirit is unbroken, a new party is being born. Peter Konya, who left Egyutt for Szolidaritas party, now establishes a new party with some former Szolidaritas-members, index.hu wrote.

It is quite fashionable on the left to establish parties after the 2010 defeat of the Socialist Party (MSZP). Then it ended by that in 2014, the whole left-wing company teamed up and was beaten by Fidesz.

According to index.hu, Szolidaritas is continuing to split. Honorary Chairman of Szolidaritas, Peter Konya quits and founds a new party. The Bureau of Szolidaritas decided last week that they take note the creation of the new party which will be totally organizationally independent from the movement. “The Bureau takes note that Peter Konya – partly with the participation of some of the members of the Szolidaritas Movement – would like to establish a completely independent party” – a Presidency decision wrote.

The Bureau discussed that the internal conflict between the two parts were unmanageable: some of them wanted to create a new party, some of them a civil movement. The party founding of Konya can solve this inner tension. Konya indicated that as the new party will have been registered, he renounces the chairmanship and leaves the movement, or more accurately, he will be a supporting member. The Presidency of Szolidaritas did not rule out they would cooperate with Konya someday, but it is not “timely”.

The protocol of the Bureau meeting of Szolidaritas writes the movement “does not issue a press release in connection with the new party, and stays away from the public opinion’s influence in other ways too.”

According to index.hu, Konya said the new party had not been registered yet and he had nothing to report, he was thinking about it.

“There are conversations, I travel the country, we are assessing the needs” – said Konya who wants to consider it not to disappear immediately. He already talked about establishing a new party in 2014, and then Szolidaritas distanced themselves from him.

Egyutt PM was set up by former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and his companions in 2013. In 2014, Gordon Bajnai left the alliance, then PM party quit, then Szolidaritas broke the strategical cooperation, and now Peter Konya leaves Szolidaritas. If the new party of Peter Konya splits, index.hu will report it, the website funnily added.

based on the article of index.hu
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Photo: Peter Konya Facebook page

Source: http://index.hu