MSZP’s welfare promises criticized
Friday, February 23rd, 2018A pro-government columnist and an alt-left blogger accuse the MSZP of not helping Hungarian families enough. READ MORE
Gábor Fodor’s farewell to Parliament
Thursday, February 15th, 2018As the Socialist Party decided to drop Liberal Party Chairman Gábor Fodor as a well-positioned candidate, a left-wing columnist muses that liberalism’s (but not Fodor’s) only chance to survive in politics is to place itself under the protection of Social Democracy. READ MORE
The MSZP on the brink of disaster
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018As the Socialist Party is measured at barely over the parliamentary threshold for two party alliances, a pro-government analyst does not exclude the possibility that the MSZP will disappear from the political stage after the elections. A conservative critic of the government adds that MSZP voters are the most inclined to vote for a party other than their own. READ MORE
An insider on the gossip about Fidesz agents within the Left
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018A veteran left-wing columnist criticises both George Soros and DK leader Ferenc Gyurcsány, for accusing unspecified left-wing personalities of conniving with the incumbent government. READ MORE
Gyurcsány accuses the MSZP of conniving with Fidesz
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018A political scientist thinks the leader of the Democratic Coalition probably considers other opposition parties as rivals rather than allies, otherwise he would not accuse them of conniving with the ruling party, which they are supposed to be dethroning together. READ MORE
Left still fragmented, 70 days before the elections
Monday, January 22nd, 2018Commentators agree that the chances of the left are meagre, as its rather weak and scattered forces seem unable to coalesce, although over half the parliamentary seats (106 of 199) can be won in individual constituencies in a ‘first past the post’ system. READ MORE
New OLAF complaint against Hungary
Thursday, January 18th, 2018A pro-government columnist accuses the opposition of using corruption allegations to veil their own misdeeds, after they urged the publication of a report by the anti-fraud office of the European Union which found irregularities in a project worth 40 million Euros. READ MORE
Left-liberal pessimism about electoral chances
Wednesday, December 27th, 2017Four months before the next parliamentary elections, leading left-wing and liberal analysts set modest goals for their parties. Two think they should try and prevent Fidesz from gaining a two thirds majority, while a third suggests the Left should boycott the elections. READ MORE
Left-wing parties still fighting each other
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017A left-wing commentator explains the MSZP’s decision to nominate Párbeszéd‘s Gergely Karácsony as candidate for PM as proof that left-wing parties, including the Socialists, have lost any hope of winning the April election. READ MORE
Gergely Karácsony named by MSZP as candidate for PM
Tuesday, December 12th, 2017A pro-government commentator pokes fun at the blunders following the nomination of an official of another party as the prime ministerial candidate of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP). READ MORE