Opposition holds first primary debate
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021Commentators right across the political spectrum agree that the opposition candidates avoided fierce disputes and divisive topics in order to show unity. READ MORE
Opposition primaries reach their second phase
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021As potential candidates for the September opposition primaries gather signatures for the ballots, a left-wing commentator sees the primary process as a promising experiment. READ MORE
Liberal authors call opposition leaders to account on morality
Monday, August 16th, 2021Four fiercely government-critical weeklies slam opposition leaders who have used what they see as morally questionable means in their political campaigns. All nonetheless readily assure their leaders that they find the government side even more guilty of such behaviour. READ MORE
Left accused of collaborating with ‘neo-Nazis’
Saturday, August 7th, 2021A pro-government commentator accuses the Left of abandoning their values by cooperating with Jobbik politicians who in the past expressed racist and homophobic views. READ MORE
Opposition primaries kick off
Thursday, July 29th, 2021As opposition sympathisers start voting to choose their candidate for Prime Minister and for the 106 MPs to be elected in individual constituencies, a left-liberal author calls the project an event of potentially historic significance. READ MORE
Opposition protests the spyware scandal
Wednesday, July 28th, 2021Opposition news sites complain about the small number of demonstrators who joined the opposition march in Budapest on Monday. A pro-government analyst takes it as proof that the spyware scandal is a hoax. READ MORE
Left-wing analyst defends inclusion of Jobbik in opposition alliance
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021A left-wing political scientist acknowledges that some of the values espoused by Jobbik are anathema to left-wing and liberal voters, but he nonetheless believes that Jobbik should be part of the opposition cooperation. READ MORE
A critique of opposition backstage bargaining and infighting
Thursday, July 1st, 2021A left-wing columnist warns opposition parties that their tactical alliances and skirmishes do not convey the impression of a resolute coalition ready to take the reins of government into its hands. READ MORE
Opposition protests against Fudan university
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021Commentators express strongly opposing views about the planned Chinese university campus in Budapest, and its implications. READ MORE
Conservative lawyer opposes ’constitutional revolution’
Thursday, June 3rd, 2021One of the protagonists of the 1989/1990 regime change dismisses the idea, put forward by several opposition-leaning intellectuals, that if the opposition wins the elections next year, the new parliament can simply scrap the Fundamental Law, even without the required two-thirds majority in Parliament. READ MORE