18 months until the elections in 2018: Vona will make a commitment each month

Press release – For the next 18 months until the elections in 2018, Gábor Vona will make a commitment each month, which will then form a core element of Jobbik’s government programme if the party gets into power.

“In this situation, not only do we need to show how Jobbik can win the elections but we must also outline what kind of a country we want to build afterwards.” the party president said in his press conference on Friday, adding that the stakes for the 2018 elections are whether Orbanism can continue or we can finally start building a fairer, more democratic and more free Hungary.

“Basically, the choice comes down to Jobbik or Fidesz,”Mr Vona concluded. In his view, Hungary’s current political arena offers Jobbik as the only alternative, the strongest opposition community.

“At present, Jobbik is the only alternative, the guarantee that there is a choice: Jobbik remained as the only hope. The government will either be replaced by us or it won’t be replaced at all.

As he put it: “PM Orbán’s attitude to political debate has clearly been demonstrated in the past few months. Based on what he has shown, nothing good can be expected: the next 18 months will be an astoundingly long and difficult period for Jobbik and Hungary alike,” explained the president, referring to the increasingly rude and contemptible smear campaign and the lies of the Fidesz media lavishly financed from taxpayers’ money.

In the party president’s opinion, the most important challenge in a situation like this is to find out how we can build bridges between the alienated segments of our society.

He announced that he was going to hold a press conference on the 18th day of every month, making a personal commitment each time. There are 18 months to go until April 2018, so he will make 18 commitments which will form the core of Jobbik’s governance as a people’s party. After the press conference, Mr Vona will continue his undercover tour of the country, which he began in 2013 and which will now be centred on a particular topic at each station.