Hungarian Elections 2006
The last week of the campaign
The 2006 election campaign in Hungary has arrived to its last week. This is the time of the usual debate of the prime minister candidates (Wednesday, 5 April), and the leaders of the major parties will also argue about eachother's policies on the TV (Thursday, 6 April). The campaign also turned from the posters towards TV ads, trying to influence the voters in the last minute. Some of these advertisements look more successful than others. The film of MSZP, where Ferenc Gyurcsany, the current prime minister talks about his aims for the following four years is actually touching and brings the politician closer to the people. The movie of MDF, on the other hand, in which Ibolya David, outline the goals of her party, has a somewhat smaller impact. Either way, these short films are the peak of the campaign.While the Hungarian parties make their best efforts to get as many of the unsure voters to their sides as possible, surveys about the outcome of the 2006 Hungarian elections are already out. All the reports agree that MDF will not be in the Parliament in the next four years, and also that there will only be a slight difference between MSZP and FIDESZ on the 2006 elections, and that SZDSZ, if gets enough votes, will be a decisive force.
In the meantime, five prominent figures of the Democratic Transition of 1989 sent a public letter to Viktor Orban, leader of the FIDESZ, stating that he and his party are getting further and further away from the spirit of the Democratic Transition. The reason for the letter were the speeches of Orban, in which he repeatedly indicated that FIDESZ is the only party that still stands for the values of 1989. The writers of the letter, among whom we find one of the founders of FIDESZ, pointed out that while the Transition was about negating Communism, and accepting liberty and market economy, the leader of FIDESZ has recently spoken for the restriction of privatization and investments.
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