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This development of events in Hungary recalls the unification of the opposition in Serbia in 2000, when Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown.
The unification of the opposition is already underway in Hungary. As reported, the pre-election coalition in Hungary consisted of the Liberal Democratic Left Coalition (DK), the Hungarian Social Democratic Socialist Party (MSZP), the Liberal Momentum Party, the right-wing Jobbik Party, the Politika Environmental Party may be different ( LMP) and the left-wing Dialogue Party.
The aim of this alliance, as stated, is to achieve “an independent and proud Hungary in which one can live normally”.
The opposition coalition describes the Orban government as authoritarian and corrupt, and they themselves intend to fulfill the promise of a democratic revolution 30 years ago: the promise of freedom and prosperity, the DPA agency reported.
Orban’s decade
Orbán extended the influence of his Fidesz party to all areas of Hungarian society, after three resounding victories in parliamentary elections since 2010, taking advantage of the division of the opposition.
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Fidesz gathers a wide political spectrum of voters from the center to the extreme right, and Orban managed to attract a part of the former sympathizers of the left parties with his economic policy.
For a long time, the opposition in Hungary had no way to oppose such supremacy.
The opposition has a plan
However, in local elections last fall, the opposition came out with joint candidates in many places, which proved successful in overthrowing Fidesz in key districts, such as the Hungarian capital.
The new mayor of Budapest, Gergelj Karačonj, said this summer that his victory, in which all opposition parties worked, was a plan for the fight against Orban at the state level.
The agreement of the opposition parties comes very early, a year and a half before the elections, and the spectrum of parties in the opposition alliance extends from the progressive left, through the green-liberal, to the national conservative.
A program platform was also adopted with the objectives of the future government, a document called “Guarantees of the change of time.”
The objectives are the restoration of an independent judiciary and freedom of the press, the transparent conduct of government affairs with the obligation to explain the spending of taxpayers’ money. It is planned to adopt a new Constitution and electoral law, introduce the direct election of the president of the state, open the files of former members and informants of the secret service.
The parties have pledged not to nominate members who have a troubled past, ties to corruption or Fidesz. The leaders of the six parties also pledged to stop the polarization of Hungarian society.
An uncomfortable moment for Orbán and Fidesz
The Orban government has long suffered criticism from the international community and the opposition for allegedly undemocratic behavior, uneven political struggle, and restrictions on media freedom. All of those accusations were rejected by Hungarian officials, Politiko reports.
However, now the ruling party is affected by a new issue that has shaken the whole of Europe.
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Jozef Sayer, one of the founders of Fidesz and member of the European Parliament, a lifelong friend of Orban who did not hesitate to go public with extremely homophobic attitudes, was caught in Brussels in homosexual orgies, illegally organized in the middle of the ban on meetings during the corona virus pandemic.
Does the united opposition have a chance?
The Hungarian government has recently adopted changes to the electoral law that make it even more difficult for small parties to go to the polls, and the unification of opposition parties appears to be the only logical step.
A member of the European Parliament and a member of the Momentum party are convinced that a change of government in Hungary can only happen if the opposition parties work together.
“That is necessary because Orban created the most difficult form of system in which everything is subordinate to one party,” he said.
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According to opinion polls, opposition parties have a chance to defeat Orban in the elections. If elections were held now, the united opposition would get 41 percent of the vote and Fidesz 39 percent, according to last week’s research from the Mediano Institute.
However, there is almost a year and a half left until the spring 2022 elections. That leaves plenty of time for Orban, as well as the opposition, to prepare.
(Sputnik)
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