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Péter Magyar: Matolcsy, Mészáros, and Tiborcz will be the first priority clients of the National Asset Recovery Office

Szajki Bálint / 24.hu
Szajki Bálint / 24.hu

Péter Magyar: Matolcsy, Mészáros, and Tiborcz will be the first priority clients of the National Asset Recovery Office

He would call Viktor Orbán on election night, but he is certain that the resident prime minister would not return the gesture. Would he accept it if Tisza won more votes than Fidesz but was still unable to form a government? Could he be voted out of the Tisza faction? In the event of a two-thirds victory, would he ask Tamás Sulyok—whom he does not even consider the president of the republic—to resign? We also asked Péter Magyar about Ukraine, Russia, EU vetoes, gestures, and a possible deal with Fidesz during his campaign tour of the countryside. This is the first part of 24.hu’s series of interviews with leading candidates ahead of the parliamentary elections.

What are your general feelings?

I tend to be pessimistic, but I assume you’re asking about the final election results.

Great instinct.

By nature, I tend to expect the worst — that’s how it was with the European Parliament elections too. But now I actually feel we’re going to win.

There are five possible scenarios for the morning of April 13. A clear or two-thirds victory for Tisza, a clear or two-thirds victory for Fidesz, and it’s also possible that while Tisza gets the most votes, Fidesz and Mi Hazánk will secure a majority in parliament.

Several of these scenarios are out of the question.

Which one is most likely?

Across the country, we see that the Tisza is not just rising but has already overflowed the banks, and the polls show the same.

Right now, we’re hovering somewhere around the two-thirds threshold. Much depends on whether we can get the more than 3 million people we need for a two-thirds majority to go out and vote on election day.

We are the strongest and most organized community, with more than 50,000 volunteers. Fidesz has no volunteers, only paid employees. Everything indicates that voter turnout in Tisza is much higher, nearly 100 percent. Over the next ten days, we must focus on ensuring they actually go out to vote, while also reaching out to new people.

Szajki Bálint / 24.hu

So the goal is a two-thirds majority.

I have said many times why a two-thirds majority is necessary.

The country has been living under a permanent two-thirds majority for 16 years; we see all the disadvantages of this, even though Viktor Orbán also sought a two-thirds mandate in 2010 to put the country in order. What guarantee is there that Tisza won’t slip the way Fidesz had?

We don’t need a two-thirds majority to create a “Fidesz 2.”

We don’t want unlimited power, but rather to be able to rebuild the system of checks and balances, to enact a new electoral law, and to enshrine in the Fundamental Law that the prime minister’s term of office is limited to two terms, so that we can rid ourselves more quickly of the Fidesz puppets who are keeping this corrupt and inhumane system in power. The situation is completely different now than it was in 2010. On the one hand, we make no secret of what we want; on the other hand, the Tisza community is a very heterogeneous one. We truly believe that there is no right or left, only Hungarians, and our supporters, voters, and candidates come from the most diverse backgrounds. The Tisza Islands, which form the foundation of our political community, also serve as a guarantee. And we have no propaganda, nor do we have any oligarchs — and we never will.

When Fidesz won a two-thirds majority in 2010, the Simicska empire was already standing behind it. We carry no secrets, like Fidesz did in 2010, because we stated our commitments in advance. For example, that we would limit the number of terms for the prime minister in the constitution. This is how a party can offer guarantees; it is not possible to include political guarantees in a notarial deed. We will have two very difficult jobs to fill after April. One is the position of Tisza’s faction leader, and the other is the leadership post at the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office.

Do you already have candidates?

You’re not asking that seriously, are you?

Yes, I am.

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