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Daily News Daily News · 04/04/2022
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This is Gyurcsány’s opinion on the election defeat

2022 Hungarian parliamentary election Democratic Coalition Hungary Hungary's joint opposition for 2022
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“We’ve suffered a heavy defeat,” Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said, reacting to the outcome of Sunday’s general election in which Fidesz won a fourth successive supermajority.

As we wrote yesterday, Hungary’s Fidesz-led alliance, which has held office for the past twelve years, won a fourth successive term in Sunday’s election amid a high turnout of 69.49 percent, and was on course to win 135 seats in the 199-seat parliament, keeping its two-thirds majority, read details HERE.

“The shared dream of the kind of Hungary we want has suffered a heavy defeat,” Gyurcsány said.

Referring to the united opposition led by Péter Márki-Zay, Gyurcsány said:

“The ship we share must sail on,” adding, however, that they had not chosen “the best captain” to steer it.

Gyurcsany said the election was neither free nor fair, but there was no doubt that a vast majority of Hungarians “has accepted this election and has given yesterday’s government a mandate for tomorrow”.

He said the situation must be acknowledged, but it must also be said, he added, that the opposition had not given up its dream of Hungary they wanted to see.

Gyurcsány said he would not evade the question of why the opposition had been defeated.

“If someone goes to battle, they cannot give up their views for tactical reasons,” he said. “A European, civic and fundamentally left-wing opposition cannot be successful with a programme which, in many respects, considers the governing right-wing its example and model.”

“The alternative to Fidesz on the left is in the liberal world, the moderate centre-right world and the green world,”

he said, adding that if the opposition chose a leader “who can’t or doesn’t want to pursue such policies, they will fail.”

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  1. The Realist says:
    05/04/2022 at 02:59

    Gyurcsány should shut up and resign himself from getting involved with politics again. Him getting involved is what held the opposition back and to them losing. His disastrous government in 06 is what allowed Fidesz to keep slandering the opposition. Then again, I doubt the opposition has the brains to put a distance from themselves and him. Although only one can hope.

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