BUDAPEST, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Hungary’s main opposition Tisza party has widened its lead over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz, two polls showed on Wednesday, ahead of an April election in which the veteran nationalist is seeking to retain his 16-year grip on power.
Orban, in power since 2010, is facing a strong challenger for the first time in the April 12 parliamentary vote, with the outcome having major implications not only for Hungary but for Europe and its far-right political forces.
Problem is that Peter Magyar used to be one of Orbán’s lapdogs (well, close enough). He’s benefited from the system extensively, so I very much doubt he’ll bring the change people Re hoping to see.
I guess we’ll see come April, but I don’t have high hopes.
My hopes are not high, but the people wanting change is good. That they want change towards the center is even better. Even incremental change is better than nothing.
If you plant a tree will it be big in one day? Maybe TISZA won’t change everything but it’s a step in the right direction.
Is it though? Yet again we don’t know what TISZA will actually do, and a number of their representatives/key people are ex-FIDESZ members who’ve benefited from the system.
Re-electing the same shitheads who’ve syphoned off the wealth of the country just because they formed a new party and ran a campaign full of good sounding promises… That’s not a recipe for changing the system. That’s a recipe for changing who runs the exact same system.
They’re still a right-wing party, not much different from Orban, just now in the pockets of the EU.
Their entire platform is the lack of a platform, which basically means “our beliefs are for sale.”
“in the pockets of the EU” is a funny thing to say when Hungary is a member of the EU.
Tell that to Orban
That is progress, though.