In his 2025 New Year’s speech, Péter Magyar, the leader of the largest opposition force, the Tisza Party, demanded an early election.
The politician In a Facebook video stood before the public. He spoke about hope, saying that more and more people share the belief that the current selfish, corrupt and evil government will soon end, because Hungary is in very big trouble, everyone can see how Viktor Orbán’s government has taken people’s hope for a better life, that is, that despite high taxes, public services fall apart. He also recalled that he reached more than 200 settlements in Hungary during his tour of the country, and by recalling several personal examples, he thanked the people for the honesty with which they told the real situation in Hungary today.
Péter Magyar reminded that until now Viktor Orbán has not apologized to anyone for the victims of the pedophile case surrounding the Zsuzsa Kossuth Children’s Home in Bicske, or for the presidential pardon given to Endre Kónya, the deputy director convicted of coercion – which led to the downfall of former President Katalin Novák and the launch of his political career led – , so he himself now followed everyone instead of the prime minister. He called it unprecedented that Viktor Orbán prevented the delivery of gifts intended for residents of children’s homes. “While we with the Tisza Party and thousands of volunteers showed the most beautiful face of Hungary, Viktor Orbán and Fidesz showed the inhuman face of power,” he said.
It seems that the Orbán government is also counting on an early election, a revealing item was discovered in the 2025 budget
Péter Magyar personally addressed the Prime Minister, claiming that Viktor Orbán had all the opportunities for 15 years to put Hungary in order and on a developing path, instead of which they robbed the people and betrayed the country. “You didn’t make the country better and help it, you betrayed it.” They betrayed everything and everyone they referred to before, betrayed bourgeois Hungary, laughed at those who believed in it, made our country the poorest and most corrupt country in the European Union.
Unprecedented destruction, unprecedented bad governance. This is over now. One country says enough is enough. We’re out of time and we’re not giving you another chance. Bring forward the day of the election to the earliest possible time, so that the country does not waste more time unnecessarily, because we do not have more time. We don’t have another year. The Hungarian people have nowhere to retreat
– he said, recalling that in 2008 Viktor Orbán himself demanded an early election from the then ruling MSZP. “Now you have become Ferenc Gyurcsány,” he told the prime minister.
According to Péter Magyar, 2025 will be about our common dream, the construction of a new Hungary,
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where health care, education and the functioning of the state once again serve the people,
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where the elderly can spend their well-deserved senior years with their families in a safe and predictable manner, with quality health care,
We Hungarians will lend a hand to each other, to everyone, to our Fidesz, leftist, and liberal compatriots, we Hungarians will win the election, we will hold them accountable and move forward under Viktor Orbán’s system – promised the president of the Tisza Party.
As for the early election, Péter Magyar also indicated in an interview with Népszava that he is ready for it, and by the way, the Orbán government includes an item for parliamentary elections in its 2025 budget.
Source: nepszava.hu
