Loud pre-election promises to voters, then deals in the background. The Gyurcsány era is coming back to the left, the pace is clearly dictated by the former prime minister in the pre-election negotiations as well as in the capital's City Hall. Századvég wrote in its analysis that the "great return" is taking place 15 years after the Ószöd speech
We quote some details from it, the full article can be read here.
Although Péter Jakab, the president of Jobbik, previously said that: "I cannot enter into a partnership with Ferenc Gyurcsány", or András Fekete-Győr called the former prime minister "unacceptable", the plan of the president of the DK will finally be realized, and the other opposition actors have done , sometimes his sonorous statements remain just empty words. We see a similar process not only in connection with the joint start, but also in connection with the primary election and the negotiations preceding it.
According to the original ideas, the opposition primaries in the individual constituencies would have been realized in such a way that each party would nominate its own candidate and the voters participating in the primaries would decide who would be the joint opposition candidate in the given constituencies. There were several debates between the opposition parties on this issue, the most sharply represented by Momentum was the "there should be a primary election in every district", while Ferenc Gyurcsány raised the possibility of a bargain. Thus, of course, there will be pre-elections everywhere, except of course where the background deals will take place in the meantime.
Such a district is, for example, Csongrád-Csanád county constituency number 4 (Hódmezővásárhely and its surroundings), where Jobbik agreed with Péter Márki-Zay, Budapest's 15th constituency (XVIIIth district), where Péter Jakab assured Ágnes Kunhalmi, the candidate of the socialists, of his support, or precisely district 4 of Fejér County (Dunaújváros), where the MSZP stood behind Gergely Jobbikos Kálló. The series continues with electoral districts 1, 6 and 14 of the capital, and it is expected that more background deals will be made in more and more districts as the primary elections approach.
As the deals continue to come to light, it has now become clear that Ferenc Gyurcsány's ideas will be realized not only in connection with the establishment of a joint list, but also in the conduct of the primary election.(...)
Gergely Karácsony's former workplace, Median, published its survey in February of this year (when Karácsony was not yet an official candidate), which clearly shows that the mayor is the most popular candidate, 39 percent of the opposition voters would vote for him, while Klára Dobrev is the most rejected, the opposition 39 percent of voters would not vote for him.
It has probably become clear to Ferenc Gyurcsány that his and his wife's rejection rate is too high, so they need a politically weak episodist, behind whom the opposition can formally line up, while their role will be more significant in the background.(...)
Gál J. Zoltán - Ferenc Gyurcsány's old confidant - helps the mayor's communication on social media, Tibor Draskovics, the minister of finance, then justice and law enforcement in the Gyurcsány government, became the chairman of the board of BKK, Erzsébet Gy. Németh, one of the vice presidents of the DK - about whom even 444 writes, citing a town hall source, that "he repeatedly says that I have to ask my president about this" - and one of Gergely Karácsony's deputies.
The series does not end here, Karácsony employs Olga Kálmán, former TV presenter and 2019 candidate for mayor of the DK as a cultural consultant, Norbert Élő, one of Gyurcsány's party colleagues and confidant, heads the Supervisory Board of the Budapest City Management Holding, while Gyurcsány's former bodyguard, Tamás Handl manages the capital's Police Directorate.
In addition to Draskovics, another former minister of Gyurcsány, István Kolber, became a member of the board of directors of the Budapest Capital Management Center Zrt., and the former state secretary of the former prime minister, Tamás Katona, became the chairman of the Supervisory Board of BKV Zrt., while another former state secretary of Gyurcsány, Csaba Tordai, is the mayor's legal representative . became a consultant and chairman of the board of Budapest Capital Management Center Zrt.
With this, Gergely Karácsony Ferenc Gyurcsány employs 2 former ministers and 2 former secretaries of state, so the model of opposition coalition advocated by Ferenc Gyurcsány already works here: behind the promoted Gergely Karácsony, the Democratic Coalition is the shadow power.
