Jobbik calls on Fidesz, Socialists to stop “playground scrap”

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz and opposition Socialist parties should drop their “playground scrap” over the leaking of the infamous “lies speech” of former PM Ferenc Gyurcsany, leader of radical nationalist Jobbik Gabor Vona told a press conference today.

Fidesz and the Socialists had better come up with election programmes instead, Vona said. He called on Attila Mesterhazy, the left-of-centre Unity alliance’s prime-minister candidate, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the leader of Fidesz, to debate him in public.

Neither the ruling party nor the Socialists have anything to tell voters and were engaged in mud-slinging instead, he said. Jobbik, on the other hand, wants to win votes through its programme and a “positive campaign”, Vona said.

A government office under the authority of the minister of the interior recently published parts of an official report on the 2006 “lies speech” Gyurcsany, a Socialist prime minister and current leader of the Democratic Coalition, unleashing a storm of protest from opposition parties, who accused the government of campaign opportunism.

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