Monday, February 19th, 2024
Just as last week, when weeklies went to print too early to comment on President Novák’s resignation in the wake of the paedophile pardon scandal, this week they were already on the stands when former Culture Minister Zoltán Balog resigned as chief Bishop of the Calvinist church for his role in convincing the President to pardon a man convicted for assisting a paedophile offender. Nor could they react to the demonstration of tens of thousands of people in Budapest on Friday night. Commentators discuss the resignations of the past week and why despite successive crises, the government’s position appears unshaken. READ MORE
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
A left-wing columnist urges the opposition to show a convincing alternative to Hungarian voters. READ MORE
Saturday, January 27th, 2024
A pro-government commentator pinpoints the hubris of urban intellectuals as the main reason why the opposition is no match for Fidesz. READ MORE
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
An alt-left commentator finds it obvious that to maximise their chances, opposition parties should run for the forthcoming municipal elections on two parallel electoral liists. READ MORE
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
A leading sociologist believes that the incumbent government will be re-elected again and again at least for the foreseeable future. READ MORE
Monday, January 8th, 2024
Opposition-leaning commentators depict a pessimistic image of Hungary’s political future, while their pro-government counterparts hope that the country has left the difficulties of the past two years behind. READ MORE
Sunday, December 31st, 2023
A left-wing columnist urges opposition parties to unite before they lose the positions they conquered in the 2019 municipal elections. READ MORE
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
A left-wing website criticises Anna Donáth, Momentum’s most popular ‘face’, who excluded the possibility of jointly running with the Democratic Coalition for seats in the European Parliament or forming a joint electoral list with Ferenc Gyurcsány’s party in the future. READ MORE
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
An independent analyst forecasts an unprecedented defeat for the opposition in next year’s local and European elections. READ MORE
Monday, November 6th, 2023
As half a dozen opposition parties are busy building their own identities rather than preserving the alliance that failed to bring them to government in last year’s election, commentators tried to make sense of it all. READ MORE
