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Indeed the most relevant part of the story is not that the socialists lied “morning noon and night,” but that their rivals, the center right Fidesz party, did as well. The socialists did not win the election because they were promising tax cuts and spending increases while the conservatives were promising harsh austerity measures. Indeed Fidesz’s proposals were even more unsound and disengaged from reality; they campaigned on explicit promises of sizable tax cuts and spending increases...
...obsessively focus on Hungarian debt and party politics, but to note that, given the standards of the post-communist world, Hungary’s recent history has been rather forgiving. If Hungary is capable of erupting into a full fledged government crisis, with extensive rioting and a nationally prominent Fidesz politician, the mayor of Debrecen Lajos Kosa, warning that “rebellion could break out,” other far more troubled countries, such as Serbia, Bosnia, or the quasi-independent statelet of Kosovo, are as well...
...downgraded to the second division of the football league in July, a result its more violent supporters, famous for their nationalism and anti-Semitism, blamed on Hungary's Socialist-led government. For his part, Mayor Demszky blames right-wing politicians, particularly members of the Alliance of Young Democrats (Fidesz), Hungary's main opposition party, for inciting the hooligans. Demszky singles out Fidesz M.P. Maria Wittner, who, he says, uttered provocative rhetoric at demonstrations; and party President Viktor Orban, Hungary's Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002, for saying a week before the current crisis broke out that he wants...
...party organizer told TIME after the ballot. "He's a risk, but he is the only chance we've got." Support for the party, perceived by many Hungarians as moribund and rooted in its communist past, is at a low of 20%, compared to 45-50% for the opposition Fidesz party. Said one strategist: "If we don't change our image, we are finished." Still, Gyurcsany's first message has been one of continuity. To soothe markets and investors worried that the political turmoil would derail efforts to rein in Hungary's 5% budget deficit, he has said he will...
...Calif. "It continues to spend very little, has not lived up to its commitments, and is not taken all that seriously." Criticisms like these are "completely groundless," according to István Simicskó, vice chairman of the Hungarian parliament's Defense Committee and a member of the opposition Fidesz Party. He ticks off the achievements of the previous government, which was led by Fidesz: it increased defense spending by .1% of GDP during each of the past three years; fielded troops for multinational peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Bosnia; passed a strategic defense-reform plan that promises to professionalize...