In a terse statement, the Democratic Coalition informed that it has entered into a federal cooperation agreement with the Forum of the Hungarian Gypsy Community, and that they will work together "Hungary is the homeland of the Gypsies!" on a project named
Collapsing with Orbán Kolompár, who was imprisoned for, among other things, the crime of obtaining an unjustified economic advantage, poaching, and disorderly conduct, ultimately fits into Gyurcsány's "national amnesia" program, and it seems that the other participants of the six-party alliance, and even the entire opposition media, have no objections to it. Because they are deeply silent about the event itself.
Of course, we can no longer talk about principles and credibility in the opposition's field, just like we can't talk about original ideas, the comrades are already sparing the personalization of imported ideology - see the uncritical acceptance of the LGBT lobby, or the story of the statue erected in Ferencváros in honor of the BLM movement. Because the people of Ferencváros certainly had a serious backlog due to their colonial past and the systemic oppression of the Hungarian Negroes, excuse me, blacks. Present tense! In the end, the six-party alliance is just like a cheap Christmas tree decoration: attractive glitter on the outside, empty darkness inside, and you know exactly that it was made of garbage, paper cookies and broken glass.
On the other hand, there is still some discreet charm in the fact that they entered into an alliance with a politician under whose hands many, many millions of tax forints lost their character as public money, that is, Orbán Kolompár did exactly what, moreover, not as a one-time stumble, but as a way of life, for which the opposition 0- He attacks the government on the 24th.
And Jobbik, led by Péter Jakab, who is touring with the slogan "Thieves Pay", listens just as deeply as the LMP, which campaigned with "anti-corruption 11 points" in 2018, but even Momentum, which promised an "up-and-down lawsuit", only ran cheap platitudes; let's say, after Katka Cseh's almost five billion self-reward, we couldn't expect anything else from them.
"At Momentum, we strive to ensure that the voices of the parties, civilians, and civil rights activists also play a role in the future, including in the joint opposition program and its part related to the Roma. We believe that a functioning Roma program can only be created if all voices are channeled."
Well, yes, all voices... especially Kolompár Orbán's.
It's a pity that we don't hear the voice of the relentless Péter Márki-Zay, the professional corruption hunter Ákos Hadházy, or the szende Karácsony 99 Gergely. I wonder why not? Perhaps because the characteristic of such agreements is that both parties benefit from it? The opposition, resplendent in DK colors, hopes for gypsy votes, Kolompárek for position and/or public money. That's it.
Kolompár, who once envisioned himself as a Roma Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mindszenty, has a career rich in gimmicks and grandiose statements, and during the nine years he spent at the head of the National Gypsy Self-Government (2003-2011), he built his own network in the field of minority interest protection. With the production of demagogic bullshit, the authoritarian leadership style, the placing of relatives and friends in positions and the lack of measurable performance, he fits nicely into the public life panopticon of South Korean politicians. What makes it special is that it wasn't just his opponents or the media who claimed that he was corrupt - he has a document about it.
In March 2013, he was declared legally guilty of "two counts of the crime of obtaining an unauthorized economic advantage, partly as an accomplice, partly on a continuous basis, and of the crime of violating the financial interests of the European Community as an accomplice, on a continuous basis". Perhaps his most memorable moment was the splash, when he and his fellow leaders were caught on camera in the pool of a hotel near Lake Balaton obliviously splashing around - with the money they won for camping Roma children.
By the way, Kolompár was also drawn to the left at that time, and had a particularly close relationship with the MSZP. For example, he organized a separate Roma march in front of the Parliament for a march called the Hungarian Democratic Charter by the reigning Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány against the Hungarian Guard in Jobbik, but there were many other anti-racist "gestures". He once took the barley-striped flag cleaned in the water of the Danube to the House of Terror Museum, but there was also a time when he demonstrated in front of the Jobbik office in a T-shirt with the inscription "I am Roma, not a criminal". In a statement regarding the strengthening of Jobbik, he directly spoke about the real danger that the country's most populous minority would be sent to a concentration camp. All this is already a thing of the past, as are the remnants of their principles.
However, the silence of the opposition has another, at least as important, aspect. From Jobbik to LMP to Momentum, the opposition's non-governing parties legitimized colluding with the prominent figures of the pre-2010 government by saying that they would be the ones to hold the hands of the extreme left if it were to join forces again. But let's think about it: if they tolerate without saying a word that Gyurcsány will seat a legally convicted, corrupt nobody at the hoped-for meat pot of their opposition round table, what can we expect from them when the heavyweight public money magician veterans appear? In a moment, they already appeared, for example in the person of Csaba Czeglédi, who grew up with the Gyurcsány clan. And the rest, and the rest.
Do they really imagine that the boundaries that are not drawn now, before the campaign, can be drawn later, especially if, God forbid, they win? Together with a Gyurcsany? Or against him? Do they really think that it doesn't matter, as long as Orbán covers up, they can sort out their common affairs later?
There are few illusions more dangerous than this.
But maybe, judging by the lack of reactions, at least it seems that they really don't care, and some of them only aim at gaining power. Then after them the flood. And here comes the rainbow. Of course, God won't have much to do with it, nor will mainstream society, if you like, nor normality.
Photo: Sándor Ujvári / MTI
