Paul writes in the Truck and Barter blog about the actual riots in Hungary. I hope I can clarify some details with my post.

Actually I am from Hungary, and the translation doesn’t gives back everything correctly. Gyurcsány talks about the political elit, not about himself or his party. And this makes a huge difference.

Even if he lied, he is the first politician in Hungary who acknowledges that not making any steps, but knowing about their necessity is a lie. Because actually this is what has happened. Otherwise everything was legal.

With these details actually I can not decide what is better for Hungary, if he leaves his seat or not. The opposition has never acknowledged these facts, even now is only focusing to its political career. So the opposition would do 2 things. 1: get the fruits of the summer reforms, 2: get the conclusion that what they did until now (to lie with doing nothing) is enough to stay on power.
On the other hand we can choose someone who explicitly said that the hungarian political elit is badly qualified (and this makes a difference, althogh I don’t know wheater it is positive or negative), but already made a lot to change the habits, and there is finally some chance that the political area can become “better”.

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