Much international attention has been directed in the past few days, to a Jobbik MP’s anti-Semitic remarks in the Hungarian parliament. The statement quickly left one of the chief figures of Jobbik in a ridiculous position, as he publicly demonstrated that he failed to decipher a more than obviously sarcastic message he received from LMP’s Katalin [...]
Today, Fidesz’s oligarchies, including Lakos Simicska and Zsolt Nyerges, are in control of the country’s economic and legislative decisions. This is why LMP’s activists and parliamentary delegates demonstrated in front of Közgép Inc.’s building. The essence of democracy is simple: the power should be given to the people. Governing power should not be in the [...]
Politics Can be Different (LMP) is standing up for internet freedom, and rejects the ACTA, an international agreement which would impede on freedom of information rights. LMP asks the Hungarian Parliament to join the Green party in voting down the highly controversial international agreement. Along with representatives from corporations of 39 countries, Hungary signed an [...]
PM Viktor Orbán rhetoric suggests he would give in to the European Union on any question. On Tuesday, Viktor Orbán practically waved a white flag in Brussels, as he says he is ready to give in to Union on any question – expressed, Benedek Jávor, the deputy head of LMP parliamentary group at a Wednesday [...]
LMP has turned to the Hungarian courts because of a restriction on Freedom of the Assembly. The Budapest Police Department has refused the request of the party to commemorate March 15th, a symbolic date for Hungarians, at Heroes Square–announced Tímea Szabó at her Tuesday press conference. Police alluded that the Municipality of Budapest had earlier [...]
According to LMP, only an economic shift that re-establishes the credibility and stability of the country can preserve the value of the Hungarian Forint in the long run. This was András Schiffer’s, the head of the LMP parliamentary group, reaction at a press conference in Budapest. Mr. András Schiffer spoke about the meeting Friday between Prime [...]
According to LMP, the Orban-administration will not cease in demolishing the democratic institutions of Hungary. Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Máté Szabó’s, first act was to eliminate the office of green ombudsman under the new law on ombudsman (which came into effect the 1st of January, 2012). Based on the new legislation, 14 members, including the [...]
LMP is preparing for street demonstrations similar to the one held on the 23rd of December, 2011, because the party “wants to bridge the gap between the streets and the parliament” – said Mr. András Schiffer in his interview reviewing the year 2011 to MTI (Hungarian News Agency). The Head of the Parliamentary faction of [...]
December 21st 2011 According to LMP (Politics Can be Different), the Media Council has taken a „shameful” decision when it retracted the frequency of a Budapest based radio station, Klubrádió, said MP Gergely Karácsony at a press conference Wednesday. The Deputy Chairman of the LMP faction added that it has become clear to all that [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Brussels, 20 December 2011 Letter to Barroso, Greens warn against factual end of democracy and rule of law in Hungary Ahead of a crucial vote in the Hungarian Parliament on Friday 23 December, Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit warn in a letter to the EU Commission’s President José Barroso that [...]
20 December 2011 Yesterday the proposal to the doubling the number of women in Parliament, which is currently at a meager level of 9%, by accepting a female quota was dismissed by the MPs in a roll call vote. It is sad to see that even the epresentatives of the governing party who voted without [...]
According to Politics can be Different (LMP), the letter of José Manuel Barroso clearly proves that while Mr Orban speaks of war of independence and national sovereignty, he abashes Hungary in international forums. MP Gergely Karácsony gave a statement to MTI (Hungarian News Agency), which stated this on Tuesday (20.12.2012); Mr. Karácsonya added that the [...]
LMP regards the autumn session of the Hungarian Parliament to be the last one of the democratic period in the country’s history for the time being — therefore the party declared to start a “New Resistance”.
To mark the beginning of the New Resistance, the opposition party Politics Can Be Different (LMP) called for a rally in front of the Parliament building on 23rd December — said LMP spokesperson Bernadett Szél at a press conference in Budapest. LMP considers a dictatorship to be emerging in the country, she added. This day will be a turning point, when the governing Fidesz majority plans to adopt a number of scandalous laws that will put the last nail into the coffin of democracy, Szél explained.
LMP’s proposed quota for female representation in parliament began as a proposal sponsored by multiple parties, but at the last moment, Fidesz and MSZP backed out. If qualifications mattered in the selection of list-mandates, there would be many more women in the Parliament today. Yesterday, Jobbik distanced itself from Nagy Tamás Gaudi, who decided to [...]
LMP (Poltiics Can be Different) has raised five important points the green party believes are required to establish financial stability in the country. Gábor Scheiring, LMP parliamentary delegate began the press statement by asking for a new budget from the current administration, and the resignation of the economic minister, György Matolcsy. LMP’s economic cabinet’s leader [...]
The European Green Party (EGP) delegates unanimously voted on accepting LMP (Politics Can be Different) as a full-rights member of the EGP. In his co-presidential speech, Philippe Lamberts emphasized that LMP does not merely have an important role in the green movement in the Eastern-Central European region; LMP’s victories in Hungary has been a success-story [...]
Gergely Karácsony, parliamentary representative, introduced LMP’s (Politics can Be Different’s) proposal for the Hungarian election system. The plan includes a two-rounded, mixed parliamentary election, in which the threshold to obtain mandates would be lowered from five to three percent. The substitute faction leader finds the reduction of mandates sensible, but not nearly as critical as [...]
LMP calls upon public media leaders to end the political purges, establish a clear programming concept, and a necessary employee headcount. What many have been concerned about has indeed taken place; the current administration has begun to transform the public media into a politically biased propaganda outlet. The management of the public media has decided [...]
LMP strictly condemns the manner in which the current administration ordered Tibetan nationals to the Bureau of Immigration and Nationality, and banned the demonstration of the Tibet Support Association, along with the demonstration Falun Gong Association in order to create a fake sense of approval during the Chinese Prime Minister’s visit. This was declared on [...]
The government can be best described today as presenting national cynicism instead of national cooperation – said Andras Schiffer as part of his annual cabinet evaluation speech. The faction leader said that thus far all actions of the government were ineffective economic policies primarily focused on unsustainable tax cuts and the elimination of a constitutional [...]
Mr. Schiffer announced on Monday, May 23rd that for the protection of fundamental employee rights, LMP has initiated a request at the National Election Commission for a ten-question referendum addressing urging issues of economic vulnerability and restrictions. A press conference was held Monday morning next to the Parliament by the fraction leader of LMP as [...]
The protest started with an introduction by LMP member Gergely Bálint, who opened the “National Consultation” with a white mask (symbolising the facelessmass that Fidesz believes the citizens to be) and an orange (color of Fidesz) tie. He thanked the audience for having come back to the place “where we started from” and expressed his [...]
If the constitution gets accepted in the proposal’s present form, then the future of the cardinal laws governing the economy and public administration would be bound to two-third supermajority. This is how the new constitution will take the tools needed to shape independent economic policy from the hands of future governments – stated Mr. Andras [...]
Fidesz’s most recent bizarre constitutional proposal would connect the legal scope of the Constitutional Court to the level of the national debt. There is no point using the debt as a fig leaf: it is obvious that the government aims to carve its crazy economic policies into stone. Fidesz is treating this new constitution as [...]
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