"Sadly, we have to acknowledge that in the past twelve years, in addition to withdrawals, our "one-eyed child", the formation and expansion of the Democratic Coalition, natural death and covid have also separated a significant membership from us. There are fewer and fewer of us! So much so that filling the boards and committees is now a serious task for our organizations," reads the letter that the Hajdú-Bihar county party leadership sent to the local organizations of the MSZP, the presidents of the electoral districts, and the leaders and members of the county boards.
The letter was written in connection with the fact that the MSZP is preparing for a renewal congress in the fall, and in order to be able to hold it at all, the organizational and operating rules of the party's territorial organizations must be amended based on the guidelines of the national committee led by István Hiller. The national committee recommends that the county committees be abolished, and that their roles be taken over by the county assembly of delegates and the county presidency.
The number of members of the county assembly would be reduced from fifty-six to thirty-two. Up until now, a county committee was formed by electing three delegates per constituency, with three leaders provided by the county. The county operated with a nine-person presidency, which would be expanded to fifteen with the abolition of the committee.
All this is a sign that the party essentially no longer works in the countryside, especially at the level of the basic organizations. In the election campaign, for example, five or six people were eligible for war, although they did not have a candidate, after Ildiko Bangóné Borbély, who falsified her diploma, was expelled from the party.
On paper, thirty-two settlements in Hajdú-Bihar still have local basic organizations, which can exist with three members thanks to an amendment to the statutes. When the MSZP was founded in 1989, there were sixteen hundred members of the party in Hajdú-Bihar county, there were basic organizations in half a hundred settlements, and one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty delegates participated in a delegate assembly. "The letter that was sent to the local organizations is an admission that this party is essentially dead, and there is no intention or belief in resurrecting it," said the socialist politician who sent the letter to our newspaper.
The Nézőpont Institute recently measured the support of the MSZP at one percent.
Source and image: Magyar Hírlap
