Leading right-wing daily lambasts green politics
Thursday, July 25th, 2019Two pro-government columnists find the Left’s green turn complacent and ideologically driven. READ MORE
Views on the success of Europe’s green parties
Thursday, June 27th, 2019A left-wing political analyst and a conservative commentator wonder why green parties have become so popular in Western Europe, and how the advance of environmental thinking will impacts mainstream parties. READ MORE
Opposition primary in the home stretch
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019A day before the closing of the Budapest mayoral primary, a pro-government and a left-wing commentator offer diametrically opposed assessments of the candidates as well as their merits. READ MORE
An alt-left critique of the Left
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019The founder of the LMP thinks that the two parties that have risen to prominence within the opposition represent two equally hopeless versions of liberalism and therefore offer therefore no real alternatives to Fidesz. READ MORE
Veteran pundit warns against left-wing infighting
Thursday, June 20th, 2019A former leading Népszabadság columnist is worried as recriminations abound among rival left-wing candidates in the runup to the second round of the Budapest mayoral primaries. READ MORE
Left-wing infighting for leadership
Monday, June 17th, 2019After the emergence of two new left-wing candidates for the post of Budapest Mayor, commentators across the political spectrum ponder the Left’s chances of defeating Fidesz in the fall municipal elections. READ MORE
Weeklies on new balance of power on the left
Monday, June 10th, 2019A right-wing analyst ponders whether Fidesz will once again have to face a single left-wing opponent, just like a decade ago, while left-wing commentators wonder whether Momentum will be able to represent a liberal pole on the Hungarian political scene. READ MORE
Big Fidesz victory forecast in EP election
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019Five weeks ahead of the European Parliamentary election, both pro-government and left-leaning pundits predict a Fidesz victory. READ MORE
Opposition parties still on the back foot
Monday, March 25th, 2019A pro-government and two left-wing liberal commentators find it unlikely that the opposition parties can seize the opportunity offered by the difficulties Fidesz is having with the European People’s Party to defeat the governing party in the near future. Another left-wing columnist is more optimistic, as he thinks that the opposition could successfully mobilize undecided pro-EU voters in the European Parliamentary elections. READ MORE
Left-Jobbik plans for an electoral alliance
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019An alt-left analyst warns that by allying themselves with Jobbik, the left-liberal opposition is taking a huge moral risk which might destroy its already torn credibility. READ MORE