Joint opposition PM candidate Márki-Zay founded new party
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Everybody’s Hungary Movement is turning itself into an official party and will hold its founding general assembly at the start of May before running independently in the 2024 European parliamentary elections, Péter Márki-Zay, the movement’s leader, announced on Wednesday.
Márki-Zay noted at a press conference that only official parties can run in the EP elections, which are decided on the basis of party lists. For this reason, it made no difference to the united opposition’s fortunes whether or not individual opposition forces ran independently, and the EP vote conducted in this way would not have a bearing on the joint opposition’s chances in the local elections. He recommended that opposition candidates run in the 2024 local elections not as party candidates but as representatives of “local patriotic associations”. If an agreement on this does not materialise, the only fair solution would be to hold opposition primaries, he added.
Unlike the parties that are fighting each other to be the largest opposition group in parliament, Everybody’s Hungary Party strives to position itself “in opposition to the system”, he said, referring to the Fidesz-led government. Márki-Zay vowed to fight for “the persecuted and minorities” subject to “the hate campaign”, and represent a culture of decency.
The party will eschew state funding and finance itself from donations, he said. By an by, his party wants to join the European People’s Party, he added. The MMM leader insisted that the opposition’s failure in the 2022 elections was not due to the errors of the opposition campaign but to “the propaganda machine and the massive financial superiority” of the ruling parties.
I say, that’s just what we need, even more parties to pull apart what little unity that may have been left in a (maybe) viable opposition block to Fidesz/KDNP.
How very typical Hungarian.
No idea how many times, numerous times, I have heard from my non-Hungarian friends that “All you Hungarians do is pull apart when you have something good going”.
Every Tom Dick and Harry thinks that they’re better than the other guy, or in this case, the other party. A strong DK was the only viable means of ever toppling Orban’s Fidesz.
Our political parties are full of egomaniacs, right, centre, and left.
Put your overinflated egos (and GREED) into your chamber-pot, and think about doing something for your country, the people who matter.