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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Hungary's Prime Minister: Fighting For His Political Life Yesterday Gyurcsany's popularity among Hungarian citizens appeared to take a drastic downturn. Just five months ago, Gyurcsany's Socialist party won a hard-fought reelection campaign against their opposition, a moderate party known as the Hungarian Civic Alliance or Fidesz. Yesterday a recording was leaked to the press -- a recording of Gyurcsany's comments to his party's inner-circle in a private meeting. In that recording Gyurcsany admitted that, during the reelection campaign, the Hungarian people were lied to regarding the state of public finances. The people of Hungary have a deep-seated distrust of government due to the cruel and dishonest governments they have endured -- this admission of more lies, right from the mouth of the Prime Minister, started a public revolt. At first there were peaceful public demonstrations and demands for Gyurcsany and his party to step down. Within hours, those demonstrations turned into violent protests right outside the Parliament building. Then, on Monday evening, the rioters stormed and took over (briefly) the Hungarian state television studios. The reason for the public outrage against Gyurcsany's government, along with the admission of the lies during the reelection campaign, has to do with the fact that the government has raised taxes and has cut public spending since the reelection. The people realize now that the increase in taxes and the decrease in services are intrinsically linked to the lies they were told to get their votes. There is also, undoubtedly, some instigation by the opposition party fueling the discontent. Gyurcsany's once popular government may be teetering on the brink of collapse but Gyurcsany is not a man that will easily give in to cries for resignation, threats of violence or even riots in the streets. It may be just the beginning of a long, hard winter in Hungary. News Links: Profile: Hungary's PM - a leader with enemies Hungarian premier promises to crack down after riots Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Whymrhymer at 9:19 AM |
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2 Comments:
Imagine! Last night I had the strangest dream!
You wrote that "the people of Hungary have a deep-seated distrust of government due to the cruel and dishonest governments they have endured." I could not agree more, there have been quite a few governments during the past 70 years which did not inspire trust, to say the least.
But in 1989, when the Soviet troops left the country and Hungarians were "free" to built their own government, who would have thought that there would be a riot against the current elected(!) prime minister...
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