Former PM Gyurcsány’s DK devours two opposition parties on 9 June?

Ferenc Gyurcsány
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Opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), the Socialists and Párbeszéd will run on a joint list at the European parliamentary election and in the local elections in Budapest this summer, DK said on Thursday. Hungarian press wrote that the joint list can mean that the DK will devour the two opposition parties.

DK MEP Klára Dobrev told a press conference that the three parties had signed a long-term strategic agreement, the statement said.

“The government has failed at several fronts, it has lost control over the country’s everyday life, its credibility has collapsed at home and abroad, and the paedophile crisis has revealed its corruptness,” Dobrev added. She also said that in addition to ruling Fidesz, the opposition was getting fragmented, with an unprecedentedly high number of opposition parties to run at the election. “The three-party alliance is aimed to offer a solution,” she added.

In line with the statement, the alliance is planned to remain in force beyond June 9, “they will continue working together, and they will join forces for the EP and Budapest lists and later have a joint prime ministerial candidate”, she said.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony was quoted saying that the alliance would be dedicated to demonstrating that politics is a matter of service and not a matter of rule. The three-party alliance will have joint lists which will establish a fair and correct cooperation in the next term, he added.

According to telex.hu, the Socialists lobbied for the joint list in 2024. According to pollsters, the party does not have a real chance to send an MEP to the European Parliament. Therefore, cooperation with the DK is a matter of survival for them. Having popular support below 5% could easily mean the end of the Hungarian leftist opposition party. In that sense, DK seems to rescue them from total collapse. However, the Socialists will pay a high price for that.

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Considering current polls, the popular support behind the joint list will be below 20%. That means they will only be able to send four MEPs to Brussels. Since DK politicians occupy the first four places on the joint list, the Socialists would be unable to send Kata Tüttő to the European Parliament. In return, their party evades a catastrophic defeat. Párbeszéd got only the seventh place on the joint list, so they will probably not send an MEP to the EP. Therefore, it might happen that the party’s congress will not nominate Benedek Jávor for that position.

Ágnes Kunhalmi, a lawmaker and co-leader of the Socialists, on a question from the press, said the joint list will not mean that the DK will devour the Socialists. They just opened the possibility to gain more votes together.

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