Hungary Parliament Speaker Accuses US of Plotting to Create New Liberal Party

In a weekend interview with the Magyar Hirlap, Hungarian Parliament Speaker Laszlo Kover, a top figure of the ruling Fidesz Party, has accused the United States of plotting to create a new Liberal party to replace the defunct SZDSZ and try to force the next Hungarian coalition government to exclude the nationalist Jobbik party.

Kover’s allegations come in the wake of Sen. John McCain (R – AZ) accusing Fidesz leader and Hungarian Premier Victor Orban of being “anti-democratic” and claiming Hungary was about to install a “neo-fascist dictator” who would be “in bed with Vladimir Putin.” Kover had complained loudly about McCain’s allegations.

Fidesz and the Christian Democrats presently hold a two-thirds majority in Hungary’s parliament, and both are strongly conservative. The main minority bloc is dominated by Socialists and Social Democrats, while the nationalist Jobbik Party is an increasingly popular third bloc.

Kover’s theory is that the US is so desperate to see Jobbik excluded from a coalition in the event of a close election, they want to create replacement for the Liberal Democrat SZDSZ party, the traditional king-maker in such elections, to try to undercut them.

It’s also not hard to see why Kover would oppose this move, should the US engage in it, as the nationalists would almost certainly back a conservative government over a socialist one, whereas the SZDSZ had most recently, in 2006, been a part of the Socialist coalition.

It’s unclear, of course, whether the US really cares enough about rigging Hungary’s political system to go to all this trouble. That a top ruling party official thinks it is not only possible but likely, however, suggests they are taking the matter seriously.

35 thoughts on “Hungary Parliament Speaker Accuses US of Plotting to Create New Liberal Party”

  1. (E-mail sent to the editors)

    Gentlemen:

    As one of your greatest admirers in Hungary, and also as a journalist who, for years, frequently highlighted your articles in the international press digest of my former daily, Magyar Nemzet, I wish to let you know that what John McCain said of the Hungarian PM is much worse than you indicated in your blog.

    Instead of:

    Sen. John McCain (R – AZ) accusing Fidesz leader and Hungarian Premier Victor Orban of being “anti-democratic” and claiming Hungary was about to install a “neo-fascist dictator”

    McCain called PM Orban quite simply a "neo-fascist dictator".

    Mr. Orban may be many thing, but he is as much as of a neo-fascist dictator as Mr. Hitler was a closet liberal.

    Kind regards,

    Istvan LOVAS
    freelance journalist

    1. No one is able or willing to tell John McCain to retire. It seems his job is to go around the world and be the cantankerous and nearly senile old fart who yells at everyone that walks across his lawn…his lawn being every corner of the planet that doesn't have a US puppet or US military base in it. I can't imagine in any way how this sort of behavior is beneficial to the US.

      1. How on earth has McCain not been banned from most countries? It's quite astonishing how this increasingly senile weirdo can so shamelessly interfere in other countries affairs with such impunity. I also wonder who is doing his electorate work in Arizona. Is this yet another example of the Chancey Gardner effect in action? (Based on the 1979 Peter Sellers movies where PS played a intellectually challenged gardener who by a series of comic mishaps winds up as the senior confidante to the POTUS). The elction of the moron Bush 2 was the first clear example of life imitating this art.

    2. Dear Istvan:
      There's not much can be done about Uncle Cranky the Senator John 'dementia' McCain. The man is off the reservation and out of his freaking mind. McCain is dangerously worse than a loose cannon. McCain's collaboration with his North Vietnamese jailers left him a bit unhinged and the passage of time has failed McCain miserably. The passage of time turned McCain into a bitter old demagogue and we all know that about the only thing to be done with a bitter old demagogue is to tuck them within the safe confines of a padded room and perform routine maintenance periodically.
      I'm an Arizonan and I would love nothing more than to see Uncle Cranky put out to pasture. So please disregard ANYTHING that vomits from the mouth of McCain. Generally McCain spouts disjointed psycho-babble with a side of saber rattling and not much else.
      respectfully,
      Don

    3. Whatever sticks in the minds of enough people regardless of truth or not, and has the desired positive or negative effect is all that counts.

  2. The idea that any Hungarian leader would ally with any Russian leader is absurd. The Hungarians look down their noses at the Slavs, whom they consider primitive, and that low opinion was confirmed during 40 years of subjugation to the Soviet Union. Hyping Orban as a supposed "ally" of Putin is a neocon propaganda scam designed to bamboozle Americans into beleiving that Putin is "winning" and has allies. Fidesz is a Christian Democratic party, part of the same European Parliament group as Angela Merkel's CDU, and has nothing to do with Putin's populism. In Hungary, that role is played by Jobbik. The problem with populism, of course, is that their principal enemy is always a neighbouring country. In Hungary's case, their pet hate is Russia first and Slovakia (part of Hungary until 1918) second. Thus, the chances of Putin getting together with any nationalist group in any of the former communist countries is more or less nil.

  3. From the interview: " Today, the task is not how to make ourselves more likable to the Americans but to find allies elsewhere." They have to go outside the American Empire and its vassal states. Aside from distant China, that mainly means Russia. It's not like they have a lot of choices.

    1. Right after this sentence – conveniently omitted – Kover also explained: it is the East-Central European countries, with whom Hungary should build stronger relationships, because 'we are traveling in the same boat' . It means the people of these countries have common history, similar sufferings, the understand each other way much better than Western Europe understands – or cares to understand – these countries.

  4. I've spent a couple of weeks in Budapest a few years ago. I remember street vendors at the numerous tourist sites there selling 'maps of Hungary' where their tiny country was shown almost as large as China with most of East and Central Europe within their borders.

    Funny :)

    1. dear arth,

      could be you bought one with hungary with the marked old borderlines before the first world war!
      these borders truly existed… but after the first wold war, the war-winning countries decided in a place called trianon new borders in case of hungary and many parts of it got attached to other surrounder-neighbour-countries. (basically it meant for many hungarians living in those regions at the old borders: they woke up one day and suddenly heard they are not anymore in hungary and hungarians and have to learn another language etc.)

      however these maps are also often used as picture to claim back the old hungary and they also became over the last ten years unfortunately konservativ-nationalistic-symbol and are strongly used by the conservativ and chiefly neo-nazi-influenced waves in the country for showing their demagoge programmatic shit. such as ideas "foreign powers took away a major part of us" and so on…

  5. The shock of the ongoing financial crisis that began in 2008 and along with Western suicide through mass immigration is pushing Orban and Jobbik in the direction of Russia. PM Orban: " … while breaking with the dogmas and ideologies that have been adopted by the West and keeping ourselves independent from them, we are trying to find the form of community organisation, the new Hungarian state, which is capable of making our community competitive in the great global race for decades to come."

  6. And US involvement in yet another government's internal and political affairs would be out of the ordinary how? The accusation sounds right up the CIA's alley. We certainly don't have troops/embassies in all of these countries simply for show.

  7. Another US/Nato front, along with the one in the Ukraine. Blame Russia. Or rather Putin the Russian demon who Americans have been taught to identify with/against.

  8. Orban has committed to grievous mistake of putting his country's interests before those of the US. The US has started a color-coded regime change process (using red cards as a symbol in this case) as part of the process of making Orban see the light.

  9. The fact is, McCain should have been buried years ago and politically he was buried during his pathetic and disastrous run for the US presidency. His only legacy during the Vietnam War was that he was captured by the North Vietnamese. His imprisonment precluded him from actually having to fight in the war like so many genuine soldiers. If being captured makes one a hero every soldier should simply run to the enemy and surrender then wait out the war and avoid battle. McCain is a paper hero.

  10. If McPain In The Ass were killed, he would neither live to vote for any wars, nor interfere in foreign affairs, nor choose Sara Palin In The Ass as his running mate. I don't know when his term ends. I hope he dies before deciding whether or not to seek re-election.

  11. America want's to democracies the world by it's own standards, but a demon-ocracy is being instituted to achieve it, and the homeland (America) is fraying at the edges and rotting in the middle it will like all past empire's eventually crumble to the dust of history, it is a pity it's own people can't be afforded the once independence of the individual and a country that fought for the very ideology it seeks for others.

  12. The Neo-Bolshevik Party has a nice ring to it.
    Whoops, I forgot. The usual suspects already have a patent on that one. (among others)

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  16. Orban has committed to grievous mistake of putting his country's interests before those of the US. The US has started a color-coded regime change process (using red cards as a symbol in this case) as part of the process of making Orban see the light.

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  18. I've spent a couple of weeks in Budapest a few years ago. I remember street vendors at the numerous tourist sites there selling 'maps of Hungary' where their tiny country was shown almost as large as China with most of East and Central Europe within their borders.

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