Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2014 (26. évfolyam, 1-39. szám)

2014-03-14 / 11. szám

Clean sweep for Orbán billboards in Six weeks out from a general election in Hungary, campaign billboards, perhaps surprisingly, are dominated by faces of the three main challengers to right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. But in Orban’s Hungary, things are often not as they seem. A closer look reveals his centre-left challengers all guiltily holding ID cards in a police lineup, and that these are pro-government ads. This trio of shifty-looking usual suspects, Socialists leader Attila Mesterhazy and former prime ministers Ferenc Gyurc­­sany and Gordon Bajnai, “don’t deserve another chance”, the posters proclaim. After sweeping to power with a two-thirds majority for his Fidesz party in 2010, polls indicate that Orbán is on course to win another term on April 6. He already appears to have won the battle of the billboards. On a recent drive between Hungary election Budapest and the town of Lorev, 60 kilometres (40 miles) to the south, out of 81 billboards only 14 were genuinely for the opposition, according to an AFP count. But critics say that this is because Orbán, 50, who has come under fire and home and abroad for a raft of sweeping and some­times controversial legislation, has tweaked the system in his favour. Whereas in previous elections, political parties could plaster every tree and lamppost across the land with posters, this is now banned. Now they are only allowed on designated places, something which the opposition says gives Fidesz a massive and unfair advan­tage since many of these are owned by people close to the party. Viktor Szigetvári, co-chair­man of Bajnai’s party, blames Orban’s domination of the bill­boards on “oligarchs” close to Fidesz. “They control 55 to 60 per­cent of advertising locations”, he told AFP. Moreover, Orbán has been able to circumvent a rule limiting spending by parties by having a nominally independent organisa­tion called Civil Unity Forum (COF), which in fact is close to the government, do their posters, critics say. COF posters have been up for weeks, on floodlit billboards and advertising columns, hanging from buildings and offices and on the sides of trams, even though the campaign officially began only last Sunday. Observers note, however, that the opposition has not done much to help itself, with the three main left-wing parties only agreeing an electoral pact last month and only this week launching its poster campaign. “Nobody is stopping the oppo­sition from campaigning more vigorously via other channels,” argues Peter Kreko, an analyst with the Political Capital consul­tancy firm. He points out the opposition could still do more campaigning through letterboxes or on social media. Television is another matter. Since coming to power in 2010 Orbán has brought public TV under his control, and created a powerful media regulatory body composed of party allies. Other new regulations mean that commercial television chan­nels can no longer charge money to run party political broadcasts. Unsurprisingly, private chan­nels like RTL Klub and TV2, whose audiences dwarf those of the public television stations, have therefore been free of cam­paign ads. How much of an impact all this has on voters’ intentions is another matter. For Csaba Toth, an analyst with the Republikon think tank, the ubiquitous pro-Orban posters “reinforce the image of Fidesz’s invincibility”, but “probably don’t change people’s minds”. “I’m not a huge fan of Orbán, nor do I have much interest in the posters,” voter Gabor Kondorosi, a 41-year-old entrepreneur from Lorev, told AFP. “But for me, things have 'Erősítse egészségét, növeCje szépségét és ßofcCogsägät” Mindezt elérheti rendelőnkben: Susan Pekarovics, M.D. Belgyógyász szakorvos, endocrinológus, Fibromyalgia specialista Klinikánkon megtalálható: 1. Széleskörű belgyógyászati ellátás 2. A legkorszerűbb diagnosztikai eszközök 3. Általános endocrinológiai problémák és fibromyalgia kezelése 4. A szervezet öregedési folyamatának és növekedési hormon zavarok szabályozása 5. A legkorszerűbb és legbiztonságosabb kozmetikai lézer kezelés 6. 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