Socialists “Resolve” Open Issues on Election Pact, Says Kunhalmi

(MTI) – The leftist opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) considers the three-party agreement by the Socialist Party, E-PM and DK for the Budapest municipal elections created, the party’s spokesperson said late on Wednesday.

This is good news for everyone who is tired of “city and district Fidesz officials who are only experts in corruption,” Zsolt Greczy told MTI. The agreement paves the way to making Budapest again a city of freedom, democracy and social solidarity, he said.

Earlier on Wednesday the opposition Socialists said that the party could move forward to resolve all open issues in connection with their cooperation in the local elections with the Democratic Coalition and E-PM.

The Socialist Party’s Budapest leader, Agnes Kunhalmi, told a press conference after a meeting of the party’s Budapest board today that the final draft of the three-party agreement was being prepared, and she insisted that it would be signed in the near future.

She declined to reveal further details and said these will be announced when the document is signed. Commenting on past reports about a lack of agreement between the parties in the city’s 3rd, 13th and 14th districts, she said after all three parties had demonstrated “great willingness to compromise and great wisdom”.

The opposition E-PM’s co-leader Viktor Szigetvari earlier on Wednesday underlined the party’s decision to run independently in the upcoming local council elections rather than wait for a comprehensive left-wing pact.

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