Socialists back candidate preselection in left-wing cooperation

Budapest (MTI) – The opposition Socialist Party is in favour of the principle of preselecting candidates when it comes to election cooperation between left-wing forces, the party’s leader, Gyula Molnár, said at an event on Saturday.

Molnár said cooperation on the left should be set on new foundations and people who want a change in government must be united.

In the forthcoming period, an important task for the Socialists will be to make clear to the electorate that it has learnt from its own mistakes and those of others, and that “it does not wish to return to the world of pre-2010 at any price”.

The party will make costed proposals on education, health care and poverty in the near future, Molnár said. The Socialists also plan a “public law package” which sets out the party’s stance on the constitution, media affairs and local councils, he added.