The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), Socialist and Párbeszéd parties have concluded cooperation agreements for next year’s municipal elections, the parties said in a joint statement on Thursday.
The pact between former PM Gyurcsány’s DK and Párbeszéd covering the whole country includes jointly re-nominating Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony and all of the two parties’ incumbent mayors. It is also for fielding mayoral candidates on a joint list in localities and in Budapest districts currently governed by mayors of co-ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrats.
Under the DK-Socialists agreement, the parties will re-nominate their incumbent mayors serving across the country and field mayoral candidates in non-opposition led districts in Budapest and in several localities.
The question is whether this deal will be enough to defeat Orbán’s candidates in the 2024 municipal elections, especially in Budapest. Momentum Movement, having many supporters in the capital and one mayor in the downtown’s 6th district, is not part of the deal. In Zugló (14th district), for example, they already announced they would not support Csaba Horváth, the Socialists’ incumbent mayor. In 2021-2022, they did not support the previous Socialist MP, Csaba Molnár, and Ákos Hadházy defeated him brutally in the primaries.
Furthermore, there are multiple Budapest districts, where Momentum and DK or the Socialists have a mayoral candidate. One example is Budapest’s 21st district, where the DK and the Momentum claim their candidate is the joint opposition candidate. Maybe a primary will decide about their fate.
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Brilliant move, re-nominate yesterday’s losers. Have the comrades run out of useful idiots?
Hungary just isn’t getting it.
“The Farther backwards you can look,
the Farther forward you can see.”
To step back in time, to the disgraced – the incompetent, with NO attraction to the younger generations of Hungarians, the “Old Guard” the failures in the past, who had there go and opportunities, they NEED retiring.
They are NOT the future of Hungary.