According to Tibor Nagy-Huszein, no one in the party took responsibility for anything, from 2018 "the leadership of the party, the bigoted part of its membership, lived under its spell, and every less serious failure has been seen as a success ever since."

The biggest loser in the European Parliament and local government elections was the MSZP–DK–Párbeszéd party alliance , since the three parties together did not win as many votes as the Democratic Coalition could win alone five years ago. Tibor Nagy-Huszein, the former vice president of the Democratic Coalition, published an article on his social media page In connection with his resignation in 2018, he recalled that no one in the party took responsibility for anything either then or since.

"Nor does the permanent campaign boss, Csaba Molnár, though

he can't show any successes, let alone failures. The leadership of the party, the bigoted part of its membership, lived under the spell of Onnön, and every less serious failure has been experienced as a success ever since."

- writes.

"DK therefore reached a fork in the road a long time ago, but in 2022 at the latest:

– Or it goes beyond the organizational, personal, content changes that are needed to be acceptable to at least 3 million voters,

- or even against his will, he gets stuck in the role of keeping Orbán in power.

DK did not do it. Before the congress at that time, I wrote an open letter to the membership, I explained what I think should absolutely be done, some of them tried to express similar thoughts at the congress.

Ferenc Gyurcsány divided everyone harshly, saying that the presidency has a party and not the other way around.

At that time I also left the party, in the hope that if I am not bound by party discipline, I will be able to express my arguments to the members more freely. Even though I have initiated several times before, even as vice president and afterwards, to have a discussion among the membership about these issues, but the presidency blocked this.

My hope did not come true.

Anyone who criticizes the party's leadership is immediately attacked by dozens of blinded members, who are immediately called Orbán's expert.

The personality cult built up in DK will now backfire:

as a result of the hate campaign after TISZA's action, the less or not at all blinded part of the base fell away, and what remained was the blinded base, which seems to provide a solid background against the changes, showing little value, but unbroken trust towards the essentially failed leadership.

The situation is aggravated by the fact that quite a few members of the presidency are waging a very harsh campaign against TISZA, which further irritates the already blinded base, making it difficult or preventing any steps to be taken in the right direction.

Now he is receiving very bitter proof that a party should not be led in such a way that no body can call the leadership to account, a narrow circle of leaders is inviolable and irreplaceable, the election system within the party should not be operated in such a way that certain leaders cannot even be replaced by chance juice. And members of the presidency who do not belong to this narrow circle must not accept the subordinate role.

Ferenc Gyurcsány owes himself and the couple of leaders who surround him closely, who praise him under all circumstances, and the base formed in this way, which rudely rejects all critical voices and calls critics Orbán's ass-lickers, for the current severe and certainly further worsening fall, which is probably the it also means his personal downfall. This is his personal tragedy.

The damage this policy has caused to the fate of the country is much greater than this.

There are even people in the party, and there are also among those who have quit and left, who would be ready to take part in the fundamental renewal of the party, but I think that this leadership, with this membership, does not claim to do so, nor does it give the opportunity." Tibor Nagy-Huszein concludes his analysis of the situation.

Cover photo: Ferenc Gyurcsány, the president of the DK, gives a speech at the DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd party alliance's European Parliament and local government election results event at the Radisson Blu Béke Hotel in Budapest on June 10, 2024.
Next to him is Klára Dobrev, the EP list leader of the DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd (j2), Ágnes Kunhalmi, the co-president of the MSZP, and Balázs Barkóczi, the spokesperson of the DK (j). MTI/Zsolt Szigetváry