HUNGARY - is it really commie again?

[man in the red suit]

I have heard the communism was voted in again in Hungary recently. Is this true? I would appreciate any reliable information you might have. otherwise I'll just look it up myself.

[VolareMIRCantare]

In their last election, in April, the party that won the most seats was the socialist party. Here is an article from cnn.com:

Hungary socialists ready for rule.

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Socialists in Hungary are preparing to form the country's next government after narrowly defeating Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling centre-right coalition in a second round of voting.

Hungarians flocked to the polls in record numbers on Sunday in a knife-edge parliamentary election dominated by personalities. The Socialists, led by Peter Medgyessy, and its ally, the Alliance of Free Democrats, won 198 of parliament's 386 seats compared to 188 to Orban's Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Party.
The Socialists have put the goal of steering the former communist nation into the European Union at the forefront of their term in office. Hungary, the EU's leading candidate state, has one of the best performing economies in the region, and aims to join the union by 2004. Although Fidesz improved its showing on the first-round result on April it was unable to overcome the Socialists' combined count. President Ferenc Madl is expected to nominate Medgyessy as Prime Minister. After a hard-fought electoral campaign Medgyessy said his priority would be to calm the political waters. "The country is divided in two... and it's time to unite it again," he said. Despite the close result, Medgyessy said the all-time high voter turnout of more than 71 percent guaranteed the new government's legitimacy. "Hungarian voters are the big winners in this election," he added.
Fidesz, which trailed significantly after the first round almost managed to turn around the election Sunday, mainly on the strength of feverish campaigning by Prime Minister Viktor Orban in rural areas, where he tried to overcome antipathy towards his strong nationalist rhetoric. A record 71 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot on Sunday, the highest since the fall of communist rule in 1990. Orban, a 38-year-old Oxford University graduate, had sought to become the nation's first post-communist premier to win re-election. But Budapest, which accounted for nearly 20 percent of all votes, remained a Socialist stronghold -- the party won 27 of 32 seats at stake in the capital.
Initial speculation that Fidesz would try to form a minority government was seemingly put to rest by Orban, who conceded defeat to Peter Medgyessy, the Socialists' candidate for the post of prime minister "A few minutes ago, I congratulated Peter Medgyessy on his victory," Orban told his followers, soon after preliminary results were announced. Within days of the second round, the president normally asks the largest party's leader to form a new government, a process which has a 40-day deadline.

[man in the red suit]

oh wow i didn't know that! thanx. so it was the socialists and not the commies. That's awesome. I hope the socialists are there to stay for awhile. thank you comrad!!!

[Kez]

The Socialists i believe are the reformed communists
ie the new communist party, which i believe is good as they will be working for the workers yet wont be stupid to ignore the importance of their economy

Comrade Kamo

[BOZG]

Kamo is right, it's just the reformed communist party.

[man in the red suit]

I know what socialism is,
I believe communism to be extreme socislism as opposed to having socialism being reform communism because socialism was invented first.

[BOZG]

You've misunderstood MITRS. We meant that the Socialist party in Hungary was the old Communist party that became the socialist party after the fall of the Soviet Union.

[man in the red suit]

oh i see, my fault. sorry

[Vladimir]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KAMO they are socialists not commys, ha you pityful commies.....

[RedRevolutionary87]

quiet IG32, or its off to the gulag for you, hehehe

[man in the red suit]

what the hell is a gulag?

[RedRevolutionary87]

its a prison somehwere off in siberia, where stalin sent his political prisoners, they were kept barely alive so they would live for about 3 years tops

[man in the red suit]

o

[Kez]

IG u cock, they say themselves they are communist who fuckwit, go eat a hamburger at mcdonalds and wash it down at starbucks.
Quick HURRY! Good job u got ur new nike shoes, now u can get there before it closes

[pastradamus]

shit you kinda flipped there kamo,he wasn't trying to be a complete bastard u know.U cant put commies & socialists into 1 bucket,im not a commie but im a socialist.and even the term socialist is vague,cuz there are so many different types.

[komsomol]

Quote: from pastradamus on 7:04 pm on May 27, 2002
.U cant put commies & socialists into 1 bucket

lol Communists are socialists.

(Edited by MOLOCH at 7:15 pm on May 27, 2002)

[Kez]

surely socialists are communists?

innit communism is ALL forms of socialism?

LOOK at the RED DICTIONARY

[pastradamus]

ah come on you know what i mean,look im a socialist but im not a communist know what i mean?

lenin=communist
martin luther king=socialist

[Vladimir]

NA na kamo, you british fuck you, stupid communists.....................woooooooooooooooo and ray hits back with a stormer!!
P.S how did you know about my nikes, nice aen't they??

[Kez]

Guevara, u got no fuckin right to use Che as your name, ur a disgrace to all those who are angered by injustices.

[RedRevolutionary87]

martin leuther king is something called bourgoisie socialism, it is created by the bourgoisie to calm the masses down, it is basicly the "acceptable" leftis parties in the west

[pastradamus]

yeah but the term "socialist" is increadably vague,i've even heard of it in reference to Adolf Hitler!