Environmentalism as a tool of political mobilization
Monday, December 16th, 2019Commentators across the political spectrum ponder whether and if so how green ideas are redrawing the political landscape. READ MORE
Calls for a national Left
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019A left-wing political analyst suggests that national feeling and social democracy can complement each other, and calls on the Hungarian Left to embrace national ideas. READ MORE
A radical left-winger launches a wake-up call
Thursday, November 21st, 2019An anti-capitalist author calls for the creation of a strong radical left-wing movement within the opposition. READ MORE
Borkai announces his resignation
Friday, November 8th, 2019As the Mayor of Győr resigns in the wake of his taped debauchery scandal, a pro-government commentator suggests that he should have been forced to do so before the elections, while a liberal pundit warns the new left-wing capital city leaders that the opposition press will not be lenient with them. READ MORE
The Left braces for the municipal elections
Saturday, August 24th, 2019A liberal commentator calls rural pro-government voters ‘simpletons’ and urges urban left-wing liberals to educate them. A left-wing analyst thinks that the opposition’s efforts to mobilize through petitions and referenda are counterproductive. READ MORE
Leading right-wing daily lambasts green politics
Thursday, July 25th, 2019Two pro-government columnists find the Left’s green turn complacent and ideologically driven. READ MORE
Views on the success of Europe’s green parties
Thursday, June 27th, 2019A left-wing political analyst and a conservative commentator wonder why green parties have become so popular in Western Europe, and how the advance of environmental thinking will impacts mainstream parties. READ MORE
Opposition primary in the home stretch
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019A day before the closing of the Budapest mayoral primary, a pro-government and a left-wing commentator offer diametrically opposed assessments of the candidates as well as their merits. READ MORE
An alt-left critique of the Left
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019The founder of the LMP thinks that the two parties that have risen to prominence within the opposition represent two equally hopeless versions of liberalism and therefore offer therefore no real alternatives to Fidesz. READ MORE
Veteran pundit warns against left-wing infighting
Thursday, June 20th, 2019A former leading Népszabadság columnist is worried as recriminations abound among rival left-wing candidates in the runup to the second round of the Budapest mayoral primaries. READ MORE