The current campaign has been the most boring one in the history of post-communist Hungary. The four important parties told the same messages as what they told in 2010.
Fidesz’s election programme was only one word: “Folytatjuk” (We will carry on”). In their opinion it is enough to say only one word and the sad thing is that maybe it is. If you want to hear more than one word they mention the “glorious” wars with EU and banks or the cut on utility prices. Not everyone is satisfied with this reasoning.
After their break up in the last few years, leftist politicians of the dilettant governments of 2002-2010 reunited again for one last great party. Two ex-PMs (Ferenc Gyurcsány, Gordon Bajnai), one of the most irritating liberal politician (Gábor Fodor) and the separatists of the green party allied with the post-communist MSZP to beat Orbán and change the government. A lot of people think they are no good to Hungary either.
There are two anti-establishment parties: one is the radical, anti-gypsy, often anti-semitic Jobbik, the other one is LMP, a green party campaigning with anti-corruption. There will be 14 other parties on the voting ballots, lot of them are bogus parties (like Új Magyarország Párt or Új Dimenzió Párt — they belong to the ex-socialist ex-convict János Zuschlag).
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