Former PM Gyurcsány re-elected again

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has reelected Ferenc Gyurcsány as its leader, the party said on Wednesday. Hungary is drifting and lagging behind, and 2025 is shaping up to be a “terrible year, not a fantastic one”, the re-elected DK president told a press conference today.

Former PM Gyurcsány reelected

DK is “the only party in which the chairman is not elected by a small circle of delegates but by all members with voting rights,” the statement said, adding that fully 97 percent of the membership had supported Gyurcsány in the vote conducted online between January 10 and 20. Vice-chairpersons and other officials of the party will be elected by a DK congress to be held on February 2, the statement said.

Hungary ‘drifting, lagging behind’, says Gyurcsány

Hungary is drifting and lagging behind, and 2025 is shaping up to be a “terrible year, not a fantastic one”, Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), told a press conference on Wednesday. Gyurcsány has been reelected as party leader by party members in an online vote held between Jan 10 and 20.

At the press conference, Gyurcsány said he expected growth to lag behind expectations and inflation to be higher than the target, while problems plaguing health care and public education would go unsolved. He welcomed DK’s proposal to parliament to discuss dissolving parliament and calling early elections. Gyurcsány said DK was preparing for an “intense political year”, adding that a stronger European Union, “a United States of Europe” was needed.

The world under the influence of US President Donald Trump “will be a terrible world”, he said. “It will be a good time for the strong, powerful and privileged, those who don’t like restrictions for the sake of public good … but it will be a difficult time for those who want a calm, everyday, prosperous life.”