Hungary's center-right party wins majority

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/04/26/Hungarys-center-right-party-wins-majority/UPI-28171272255806/

Hungary's center-right party wins majority


BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 26 (UPI) -- Hungary's voters Sunday handed the center-right opposition Fidesz Party the two-thirds majority needed in Parliament to pass laws and amend the constitution.

The results of the runoff election give Viktor Orban, the country's next prime minister, power to deliver on his campaign promises, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Orban, 46, has pledged to cut government payrolls and taxes, grant citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in other countries and support Hungarian businesses by, among other things, legalizing home distilleries.

"Revolution happened today in the polling booths," said Orban, who served as prime minster from 1998-2002. "Hungarian people today have ousted the regime of oligarchs who misused their power, and the people have established a new regime, the regime of national unity. … Starting today, the interest of Hungarians will be the No. 1 [issue] in Hungary."

The Journal noted the economy was thriving during Orban's first term but that he returns with the economy faltering, less than two years after Hungary avoided bankruptcy only because of a bailout by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.

The socialist government had cut welfare benefits because of IMF loan requirements, but Orban said he hoped to reinstate some of them.

Of the 386 seats in the Hungarian Parliament, Fidesz won 263, the ousted Socialist Party 59, the extreme right-wing Jobbik Party 47 and the LMP Green Party six.

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"The socialist government had cut welfare benefits because of IMF loan requirements, but Orban said he hoped to reinstate some of them."

Exactly how is increasing welfare benefits a good thing?

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Just goes to show the left-right paradigm is all a sham. They're all nanny staters now.

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I think the term right-wing, by European and international standards, is used somewhat differently than here in the United States.

The 'right-wing' parties in most of Europe do tend to be business-friendly but they're also usually supportive of higher taxation, national health care, and governmental services i.e. the Conservative Party & BNP in the UK.

Furthermore, most Europeans would classify both Obama & Bush as right-wingers and nowhere close to being left-wing.

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I think the term right-wing, by European and international standards, is used somewhat differently than here in the United States.

The 'right-wing' parties in most of Europe do tend to be business-friendly but they're also usually supportive of higher taxation, national health care, and governmental services i.e. the Conservative Party & BNP in the UK.

Furthermore, most Europeans would classify both Obama & Bush as right-wingers and nowhere close to being left-wing.


That's pretty scary.

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I think the term right-wing, by European and international standards, is used somewhat differently than here in the United States.

The 'right-wing' parties in most of Europe do tend to be business-friendly but they're also usually supportive of higher taxation, national health care, and governmental services i.e. the Conservative Party & BNP in the UK.

Furthermore, most Europeans would classify both Obama & Bush as right-wingers and nowhere close to being left-wing.


That's pretty scary.


It's pretty normal for them.

Most European parties tend to have somewhat of a statist & socialistic mentality (be they right, center, or left).

And, as you've mentioned before, they do tend to be nanny statists.

To even speak of reducing governmental services & bureaucracies would usually be seen as a very far right-wing policy.

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The ironing is delicious. They are talking about repaying the IMF for policies that got them into this mess and at first twinkle they're going to run right back to those failed policies.