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In Hungary, it is a prerequisite
for democracy to always
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have an opposition which is capable of governing,
so an opposition being constantly
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prepared to govern should be formed.
I agree that there is no real
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political democracy where a mass party
is formed and then the other party
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is always out of chance.
Opposition parties should have the chance to governe
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and I always considered
the year 1875 as a historian to
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be a tragic year in the history
of Hungarian politics when Kálmán
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Tisza united the two parties.
The reason is because in Hungary
the conditions were given for bipolar politics
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and after 1875 there was a bad reflex
- from then on a large mass party
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forming the government dominated politics
without any chance of having a real opposition
which necessarily led them in an
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unproductive and aimless direction.
The Horthy-era also had a major political
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flaw in the so-called united party
and minor parties alongside
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which where uncapable of forming a government.
So we can agree on this
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and I think this is very important that
in political life, in the Parliament,
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the conditions of a political
system with alternating parties
should indeed be created.
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One of the conditions for the
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emergence of a true democracy is that
the rules of parliamentary democracy,
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legality, and so on be manifested in state administration,
and this must be linked to
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a very good municipal system.
So democracy can only be
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imagined as a true democracy,
if local governments really
live alongside with the central government,
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and therefore it will be incredibly
important that newly elected
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people will appear in municipal
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offices in great numbers
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so that people can feel
there once again that they
choose people with trust.
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I agree that the press is is a power factor in democracy,
even though not in the way Motesquieu described it.
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And there is a fundamental truth also
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that true political democracy
can only function where parliamentary
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democracy can be built on a
broad and a wealthy
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middle class, the term interpreted in a broad sense,
and that is why it must be sought,
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not as it was considered traditionally
but through the peasantry,
skilled workers, a very wide
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middle class that we see in every
functioning democracy, lit can
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only be built on such a base,
because where there are masses of people
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in poverty and despair political
democracy cannot really be built.
