HUNGARY EX-PM POISED TO UNSEAT ORBAN IN 2014 ELECTIONS
November 13, 2012 – 12:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Hungary’s former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai faces
one of the toughest political battles in the post-communist country
as he forges a coalition to beat Prime Minister Viktor Orban in 2014
elections, Reuters reported.
Bajnai has set out to build a broad opposition alliance and draft a
new program to help him oust Orban’s ruling center-right Fidesz party,
which has become the strongest political force in the central European
country’s recent history.
“This government is not governing the country,” Bajnai, 44, told
Reuters in his first interview with the international press since
announcing his coalition last month on the anniversary of Hungary’s
1956 revolution.
“They are using their two-thirds majority to build a regime,” he
said in the interview late last week. “We have to organize a large,
strong political centre of people of different values, ideologies who
want to live in a normal developing European country and not one that
is drifting away from Europe.”
Bajnai, whose movement Egyutt (Together) 2014 now ranks second in
opinion polls to Orban’s Fidesz, said his alliance would lead Hungary
back from economic unorthodoxy and end what he said was democratic
foul play in Orban’s regime.
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