European elections: Hungarian opposition's double-tracked election campaign

The business paper writes about the election campaign of opposition party Fidesz, which according to polls will win the European elections by a large majority: "The oppositional young democrats [Fidesz] have presented a 284-page election manifesto for the European elections. It makes no mention of domestic Hungarian politics or potential ways out of the economic crisis. Nor was the manifesto designed for this purpose. … However the Fidesz election campaign is a different matter altogether: it focuses almost exclusively on domestic policy. And no wonder: Fidesz sees the European elections as the first round in the [national] parliamentary elections scheduled for spring 2010. The major opposition party even secretly calculates that in the case of a bitter defeat for the already floundering left liberal ruling party in the European elections the parliamentary elections could be pulled forward to this autumn."

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