LMP and Jobbik backs Puzsér for Budapest mayor

The parties of the 21st century signed a trilateral agreement with Róbert Puzsér. The agreement means that Jobbik joined Politics Can Be Different (LMP) in supporting the mayoral candidate who promises a more liveable Budapest. Momentum Party has not joined yet. Puzsér said Momentum and all other organizations that agree with his programme had until June to join the newly-formed political center.

The trilateral agreement regulates all aspects of the cooperation. Both LMP and Jobbik are going to help Puzsér’s campaign for mayor of Budapest and they will also coordinate their efforts in all the 23 districts of the Hungarian capital. Their goal is to make Budapest more liveable and ensure the transparency of public spending.

“We are rising above partisanship because there is a mountain towering between partisan interests and we are climbing this mountain so that we could meet. Now we need to build a bridge between the different interests and the gap is bridgeable,”

Puzsér described the newly-forming political centre. Signed by the leaders of the modern 21st-century parties and the independent mayoral candidate, the cooperation agreement, subject to minor modifications, welcomes interested organizations, NGOs or political parties until late June, as long as they agree with the programme and are dissatisfied with Budapest’s current leadership. Puzsér said Momentum was not willing to join at the moment.

He added that he was open to all values except extremism, which he described as “out of the question”. He noted that if he experienced anything like that in either party, be it LMP or Jobbik, the affected party would be expelled from the alliance.

He made a few remarks about the left-wing parties, too. Puzsér said his group never discussed any future positions during the negotiations, which he was very happy about. In his view, this is a clear indication that LMP and Jobbik truly want to make a change while the left-wing parties have not communicated anything about their programme but they are already busy discussing future positions.