Left Alliance
The main candidate of the left-wing alliance, Klára Dobrev, spoke of a disappointing outcome on election evening.
“We believed that the insurance policies we represented would win over extra voters, persuade extra voters,” mentioned the spouse of former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, who had already sat within the European Parliament (EP) and had lengthy been making ready to take workplace as “prime minister” of a shadow authorities following the deliberate fall of the Orbán authorities. Hungary can be represented within the subsequent EP by 4 formations, three of which belong to the right-wing camp. “These circles have a totally completely different concept of Europe than we do,” complained Dobrev. However, she continues to consider that solely a robust Europe can convey prosperity to Hungary. A weak Europe might be nothing in need of a disaster for the nation.
Political map redrawn
The top of the DK, Ferenc Gyurcsány, took the ground himself to confess that this “lengthy election day that lasted properly into the evening has considerably redrawn the political map of Hungary”. The deeper causes should first be analyzed with a view to then be capable to draw the correct conclusions. The disappointing variety of seats within the EP can be compensated for to some extent by extra mayoral places of work.
There’ll at all times be leftists
The co-chair of the MSZP, Ágnes Kunhalmi, added that there can be a left sooner or later as there was prior to now. Left values akin to social justice, solidarity and decreased social variations have to be represented by politicians.
DK, MSZP and Párbeszéd collectively have been solely in a position to win 8% of the vote for his or her checklist, which is sufficient for 2 seats within the subsequent European Parliament. Earlier than Péter Magyar’s Tisza Get together got here onto the scene within the spring, DK was nonetheless at just below 20%.
The Párbeszéd, whose Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony nonetheless has to fret regarding re-election, has in the meantime misplaced its parliamentary group chief: Bence Tordai introduced on social media on Sunday night that he was leaving the occasion and wished to work in parliament as an “unbiased Inexperienced” any more. He justified his choice with the left-wing alliance, following the Párbeszéd management additionally desires to run on a listing with the DK within the 2026 parliamentary elections. For him, this alliance will not be a merger, however a self-abandonment.
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