Local elections – Official: Fidesz offers progress against opposition’s ‘unrest’

Hungary’s ruling alliance of Fidesz and the Christian Democrats offers progress, while the opposition offers “unrest” in the upcoming local elections, Lajos Kósa, Fidesz’s campaign chief, said in an interview to Saturday’s edition of the daily Magyar Nemzet.

“These are the two choices voters will be faced with in the October 13 municipal election,” Kósa told the paper.

He said voters could expect “many attempts at disinformation” from the opposition parties during the campaign.

Kósa said it was impossible to predict the issues the opposition would campaign on “since their messaging is already all over the place”.

He said the common theme in their messages was their desire to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party. Kósa argued, however, that this was not the right message in a local election since the vote will not affect the status of the government.

Contrary to the opposition, Kósa said, Fidesz wants to improve Hungary’s municipalities in line with the government scheme launched by the prime minister.