Socialists, Parbeszed to field joint candidates in pre-elections for 2022 general election

Bertalan Toth, the Socialists’ co-leader, noted that the two parties had initiated and supported the idea of a six-party opposition for the 2022 parliamentary election early on.

“We are proud of the alliance’s joint programme and the decision that we would nominate a joint prime minister candidate, enter a joint party list and field joint candidates in individual constituencies for next year’s ballot,” he said.

Toth introduced as the two parties’ joint candidate for the pre-selection Agnes Kunhalmi, the other co-leader and lawmaker of the party, representing Budapest’s 18th district.

Kunhalmi expressed hope that “the current political stand would be turned around” in 2022.

Gergely Karacsony, co-leader of Parbeszed, said that “while the government is representing only 1 percent of [Hungarian] society, we are working for the remaining 99 percent who were humiliated and robbed in the past years”. He called for a social and green turnaround.

Karacsony introduced Timea Szabo as a Socialist-Parbeszed joint candidate representing Budapest’s 3rd district, for the pre-election. Szabo is a lawmaker and co-leader of Parbeszed.

Szabo said “we are proud of having managed to thwart attempts by [ruling] Fidesz’ real estate speculators over the past few years”.