Pro-government reaction to Dobrev’s nomination
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021A right-wing commentator predicts that the Left will lead an unscrupulous campaign to win the elections next year and urges the government side to respond in kind. READ MORE
Scandal makes local election contest unexpectedly close
Monday, October 14th, 2019Commentators see the case of the Fidesz mayor of the western city of Győr as particularly harmful for the government side, although sex videos and audio tapes discussing corruption have also surfaced involving local opposition politicians. READ MORE
‘Treason’ charge returned in kind
Thursday, October 10th, 2019The left-wing daily rejects accusations of high treason by pro-government outlets towards opposition politicians who complain about the government’s policies in the European Union. The author retorts that they themselves are the real traitors. READ MORE
Migration – a trump card in the electoral campaign
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019As the Prime Minister includes the migration issue in his pre-electoral address, a pro-government pundit castigates the planned European refugee redistribution scheme, while a critic of the government accuses Fidesz of low-level anti-migration campaigning. READ MORE
Sex-videos in the Mayoral campaigns
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019Commentators are appalled as, for the first time in the 30-year history of democratic Hungary, videos of married candidates with ‘loose’ women have surfaced in an electoral campaign. READ MORE
PM calls for defending national identity
Saturday, March 17th, 2018Columnists, just like the Prime Minister whose speech they commented on, were in full campaign mode on the anniversary of the 1848 revolution. READ MORE
Peace marchers intend to put hope into pro-government side
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018One of the organisers of the pro-government march planned for March 15 thinks many supporters of the government have been discouraged and need a show of force to regain their self-confidence. READ MORE
Government may scale back its anti-Soros campaign
Thursday, March 1st, 2018As government spin doctors are reported to be weighing a new communications strategy in the wake of their candidate’s defeat in the Hódmezővásárhely mayoral election, a liberal columnist predicts that they will target the disparate nature of the opposition – and they will be right. READ MORE
President Áder sets date for April election
Saturday, January 13th, 2018As President Áder announces the date of the 2018 Parliamentary election, a pro-government and a conservative liberal columnist both anticipate a rude and tough electoral camapaign. READ MORE
George Soros confronts the charges
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017A left-wing columnist accepts Mr Soros’s claim that the charges levelled against him are untrue and complains about the success of lies in politics. Her pro-government counterpart rejects Mr Soros’s view that PM Orbán is running a mafia-state and calls him a mafioso. READ MORE