Hungarian opposition: There won’t be a new government without the left
Hungary will not see a change of government or a new parliament without the left, Klára Dobrev, a candidate to lead the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), said on Sunday, arguing that “leftists cannot be excluded from the nation”.
Dobrev, who on Thursday announced former party leader Ferenc Gyurcsány’s resignation and retirement from public life, as well as their divorce, said in a video on Facebook that she had just been through “the most difficult period and decision” of her life, but because of her children and community she had never felt as strong as now.
She said the changes ahead of her were not just personal, but also political in nature, because her party was preparing to embark on “a new era of the Hungarian left and in Hungary’s history”.
Dobrev underscored the need for diversity in politics, saying that the paths proposed by “the ruling and opposition right” came with “autocracy”. She said her positions differed from those of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on every issue, and she also had many disagreements with Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar.
“And on the right, the competition is about who is the loudest instead of concerning themselves with people’s real problems,” she insisted. Dobrev said she wanted to listen to the people because the state could not be relied on when people needed help.
She said being a leftist meant “that we don’t accept the injustices in the world because these aren’t eternal laws” but things that could be changed. “Being a leftist also means self-confidence because it’s not enough to believe that change is needed, but we also have to know that we can do it,” she added.
She said it was the job of politicians to make sure that people have high enough pensions, proper housing, “because being a leftist also means that we believe that no one is worthless … just because they are poor, sick, vulnerable or different from the majority in some way”.
Dobrev said she also disagreed with the right about freedom, arguing that she believed “freedom doesn’t mean that the strong can do whatever they want to the weak but that one who is weaker should always come before one who is stronger, and especially before one who is violent.” She added that the state had a duty to support the weak.
She said “millions of Hungarians today feel like losers because they live in a country controlled by a right-wing mentality”, adding that this would not change if the government were to be replaced by only an opposition right-wing party. Dobrev said she would attend the Pride march and that she would have clear messaging when it comes to Ukraine because “it’s in our national interest to have a strong EU member Ukraine between us and Russia.”
“There can be no change of government or new national assembly because leftists cannot be excluded from the nation,” Dobrev said, vowing to work to make the left a “decisive force in shaping a Hungary after Orbán”.
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There is not a single country in the world “governed” by the Left (whether the traditional Left or the globalist-socialist-fascist Left) that is successful by any measure or metric. Not one. At best there are those who the Left took over from the Right and didn’t manage to destroy yet.
And why did they take them from the Right? Not because the Left has great, workable ideas. It’s because every nation sooner or later experiences fatigue and wants change.
It’s going to happen in Hungary, too, yes, and may the good Lord help us when it does…
We again see the “Pontification” in the commentary received under the name – Michael Steiner.
The “Pseudonym” commentators, that use this platform under the name of Michael Steiner, of which ALL are members of the Orban led Fidesz Government “spew” out to readers there infestation – there BELIEF that the future of Hungary lies in the Political Ideas and Philosophy, the Dogma and Ideology – of Victor Mihaly. Orban.
Idiotic or “Perilous” for Hungary our FUTURE is this position opinion that “oozes” out the pens of the Michael Steiner(s) – in the “Pseudonym” camouflage of there TRUE identity.
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried, in this World of Sin & Woe.
No one pretends that DEMOCRACY is perfect nor all-wise.
Indeed, it has been said, that DEMOCRACY is the worst form of Government, except ALL those “other” forms, that have been tried – from time to time.”
Churchills words decades on from his DELIVERY of them – the Hungary of to-day, delivered to the cataclysmic PLACE we are in, through a Government, under the leadership – an individual Victor Mihaly. Orban – that from 19th June 1989 – his “mouthing off” from the podium in Hero’s Square to all Hungarians that DEMOCRACY – to its CORE – the Governance of Hungary must be – our FUTURE – as a country – as a DEMOCRACY.
WHAT has been DELIVERED to Hungary by Victor Mihaly. Orban and his Fidesz Government ???
Hungary – is NOT a DEMOCRACY.
We HOPE – in the Spring of 2026 that eventuates the FALL of Orban and his Fidesz Government, that as a country we REVERT completely back into Governance under the “Core” of DEMOCRACY.
If, and it must HAPPEN for a “fairer” balanced and sharing Hungary, of Solidarity to-getherness, we OUT the Orban – Fidesz Government, to have the “left” have a voice – a place in the “re-modelling” of the Political arena in Hungary, a return to “Core” fundamentals – the “CREEDS” of Democracy – there should be a PLACE in our Political structure for the Left to be a Political Party.
Someone has to tell Dobrev that she is delusional. Her absurd coalition, even with her ex-husband gone, is irrelevant. If change comes, it will be Tisza, not her rag-tag group of hasbeens/neverweres that bring it about.