Gyurcsány: Joint Opposition Can Win against Orbán's 'Autocratic System'
Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said in a keynote speech on Saturday that the decision by Hungary’s opposition parties to cooperate was of “historic significance”. The former Socialist prime minister said: “The best thing to happen over the past year is the birth of a patriotic, European, democratic opposition to the Orbán regime.” “It’s taken a good while for people to understand that democratic competition doesn’t exist in Hungary,” Gyurcsány said. Only a joint political and electoral force that’s fundamentally opposed to an autocratic...