Former Minister of First Orbán Gov’t to Run in Opposition Primary
Magyar Hangreports.
The center-right ÚVNP was founded in October of last year. The party’s goal is a change of government and political direction in Hungary in 2022. During the opposition primaries, they want to address the “civic” side, disappointed Fidesz supporters, and undecided voters.
Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences József Pálinkás, who was also the Minister of Education during the first Orbán government between 2001-2002, has launched a new party named Új Világ Néppárt (New World People’s Party, ÚVNP). The new party’s program and its leadership was introduced at an online press conference on Thursday. The […]Continue reading
The new party Civic Answer (Polgári Válasz), founded by Janos Bencsik, a former Jobbik lawmaker, will run its own national list and field individual candidates in every electoral district in the general election next spring.
“Recent developments [in Hungarian politics] have made it clear that Christian conservative values are not represented in politics at all,” Bencsik, who was the leader of Jobbik’s Budapest chapter, said in a statement.
MP and Jobbik’s Budapest president János Bencsik, in a Facebook message on Wednesday announced to quit the party and its parliamentary group, as he disagrees with the path that the new presidency has taken. Bencsik, who won his parliamentary seat from Jobbik’s national party list, said he considered it “unacceptable” that Jobbik had become “a […]Continue reading