Fidesz Comm Head: Over Half a Million Sign Anti-Gyurcsány Petition More than half a million people so far have signed the ruling alliance's "Stop Gyurcsány! Stop Karácsony!" petition launched on... 2021.09.23.
US Conservatives to Hold Event in Budapest Next Spring The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will meet in Budapest next spring, Miklós Szánthó, director of the pro-Fidesz Centre for... 2021.09.23.
Press Roundup: Voting in Opposition Primaries Underway As voting begins in the opposition primaries to choose PM Orbán’s challenger, weeklies and the weekend editions of dailies wonder... 2021.09.20.
Opposition DK to Restrict President’s Pardoning Powers The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) will initiate restricting the president's powers to grant pardon from the time of announcing the... 2021.09.18.
Karácsony’s Referendum Questions Approved by Election Committe Appealed By the Tuesday afternoon deadline, six applications for legal procedures had been submitted to the National Election Office(NVI) regarding two... 2021.09.17.
Analysis of Primaries: Balance Among Potential Winners but DK and Jobbik Can Hope for More Besides a virtual balance in potential candidates, current situation predicts the likelihood of Jobbik and Democratic Coalition (DK) to come... 2021.09.16.
Orbán Warns Against ‘Gyurcsány Era’s Return’ at Fidesz-KDNP Group Meeting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned against "the return of the Gyurcsány era" at a meeting of the Fidesz and KDNP... 2021.09.16.
Press Roundup: Opposition Holds First Primary Debate Commentators right across the political spectrum agree that the opposition prime ministerial candidates avoided fierce disputes and divisive topics in... 2021.09.15.
DK Promises to Set Up Anti-Graft Agency Democratic Coalition (DK) MEP Klára Dobrev, the party's candidate for prime minister, has promised to set up an anti-corruption agency... 2021.09.13.
Focus on Fidesz’s Accountability, ‘Unjust’ Taxation, Healthcare, and Education at Opposition PM-Candidates’ First Debate The first debate between the opposition parties' prime-ministerial candidates was held Sunday night. Besides only one minor verbal clash, the... 2021.09.13.
DK MEP Calls for Independent Health-Care Ministry Klára Dobrev, an MEP of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) party, pledged wage and staff increases in health care and... 2021.09.11.
Minor, yet Worrying Violent Incidents Increase as General Elections Near As political events leading up to next year's general elections are gearing up (e.g. ongoing primaries for the opposition and... 2021.09.10.
Skirmishes and Controversy Accompany Opposition Primaries Despite the opposition parties endorsing one another, stressing that primaries are a celebration of democracy, their campaign and fights for... 2021.09.08.
Press Roundup: PM Orbán Vows to ‘Keep the EU Alive’ Opinions diverge over what motivated the Prime Minister to say that he will be a staunch supporter of the European... 2021.09.08.
Fidesz’s Anti-Gyurcsány, Anti-Karácsony Signature Drive Garners 100,000 Signatures More than 100,000 people have already signed Fidesz's "Stop, Gyurcsány! Stop, Karácsony!" petition in only five days, announced the ruling... 2021.09.07.
Five PM Candidates to Enter Ring at Opposition Primaries after Signature Collection Comes to a Close Five prime ministerial candidates will run in the primaries after two of them didn't manage to collect the relevant number... 2021.09.07.
Párbeszéd Submits Amendment Proposal to Speed Up Referendum Process on Fudan Campus Opposition Párbeszéd has submitted to parliament an amendment proposal to the law governing referendums in Hungary with a view to... 2021.09.07.
Orbán: Hungary “Safe Point in This Uncertain World” "Our strategy is: we win, they lose," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan regarding the upcoming... 2021.09.06.
PMO Head Gulyás: ‘Only Thing Gyurcsány Family Loves More than Lies is Power’ "The only thing the Gyurcsány family loves than lies is power," the prime minister's chief of staff said on Facebook... 2021.09.03.
Election Com. Approves Karácsony’s Fudan and One Other Referendum Question The National Election Committee (NVB) approved two of the five referendum questions submitted by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, the candidate... 2021.08.31.
DK PM Candidate Dobrev: Next Gov’t Needs to Bring Hungary Back to Western Europe Besides government change, Hungary's future in the EU will also be at stake, with "a Huxit looming on the horizon,"... 2021.08.30.
