[fse-esf] After the clashes in Hungary

[Simó Endre]

After the clashes in Hungary



    Political crisis in Hungary seems to be drawn out. After the violent 
clashes between rightwing, mostly extreme rightwing demonstrators 
and Police in the streets of Budapest, causing 130 wounded people 
and about 100 detentions, country was living hours of relative calm on 
Tuesday. The celebrations of  the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution of 
23 October ’56 have shown a very deep division of the Nation, 
concerning its present and future. The ruling coalition of Socialists and 
Free Democrats led by Ferenc Gyurcsány is strongly decided to follow 
the ultra liberal policy of cuts and privatisations. Hungarian Socialist 
Party continues supporting his Prime Minister, and during its congress 
on Saturday 21 October the same Gyurcsány has renewed his intention 
to become also President of the HSP. Any word about the precarious 
social situtation of the country, caracterised by 3-4 million of people 
living below the social minimum (200 euros) has been pronounced on 
the congress of HSP. Gyurcsány’s government enjoys of the political 
support of EU authorities, because its program of re-establishing the 
financial balance in vieuw of the introduction of the common currency in 
Hungary. Socialist Group of the European Parliament is also giving an 
important political help to him against rightwing nationalists. It is 
difficult to predict if this simpathy would be enough to save Gyurcsány 
and his coalition from the increasing crisis. Majority of the Hungarians in 
fact are very critics vis a vis the policy of lies of Ferenc Gyurcsány 
accompanied by social cuts, mass lockouts, healthcare privatisation, 
more and more people are demanding the resignation of him and his 
government. The main force of the rightwing opposition, the Alliance of 
Young Democrats, Civic Alliance (FIDESZ) is leading the process of 
dethronement. FIDESZ chief, Viktor Orbán has yesterday pronounced a 
very hostile speech against socialists defining them as inheritors of the 
communist era of 1956. Orbán has put sign of equality between 
communism and national socialism, refusing both. During his tete a tete 
with José E. Barroso in Budapest, he has defined Gyurcsány as 
illegitimate PM because of his lies to the Nation and he has argued that 
in every real democracy the solution could only be the resignation of 
such a government. FIDESZ has launched a new national campaign in 
order to achieve the dismissal of the ruling coalition, by focusing on four 
motions of referendum regarding social and economical sphere. FIDESZ 
is exploiting the opportunity given by Gyurcsány’s government to 
overtake on the left. In this complex situation the Hungarian Social 
Forum cwg reconfirms his position for a democratic joining of force 
against far right and the defense of democratic rights of freedom in 
Hungary. The main cause of the revival of extreme right tendencies in 
Hungary and in other countries of Eastern Europe is to be find in the 
neoliberal and ultraliberal policy itself, represented by socialists and 
FIDESZ both – we are telling, at the same time we are calling the 
attention to the far right dangers the forcing of EU financial policy is 
causing in the wake economies of Eastern Europe. We indicate as 
alternative a new social balance, based on a new development policy 
completed with social program, to be elaborated with all interested 
people and social forces. Concrete steps are waited in this sense for 
the next few days.

  Thank you for your attention,     Endre



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