Mà¡rki-Zay Addresses Direkt36 “Lies†Regarding Unsuccessful Campaign
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- 20 May 2022
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“Perhaps it is only natural that in a large-scale defeat no one else wants to take responsibility,” Márki-Zay explained in his post, saying the Direkt36 article “does not extend to any positives, and it barely points to any causes of the problem beyond myself.”
Márki-Zay: Fighting tanks with a slingshot
The first point the former opposition leader makes is that this is not the first time Fidesz won a two-thirds majority over the opposition. “But this was the first time that there were 106 joint candidates selected by primary elections, a six-party joint campaign, 400 million microdonations, a nearly 3 billion forint [EUR 7.8 million] campaign, 27 thousand vote counters at the country’s 11 thousand locations, a hundred thousand-person opposition meeting with buses, a joint opposition list and a joint program, a shadow cabinet and now three Roma representatives of ours in the Parliament…”
We made the model a reality, but it did not work – even with unity we cannot defeat the overpowering strength [of Fidesz]. […] in return, this is the first time Fidesz and Orbán were actually afraid of defeat, even on election day.”
Márki-Zay’s second point is that while he did have some poorly worded statements, there were also “weak posters, communication materials, logistical problems, and absences in the entire campaign.” This is not just the complete fault of the opposition alliance, he says, but an overarching democratic deficit in Hungary.
In his third point, he says,
The true causes [of the defeat] were not in the opposition, but in the enormous clash with overpowering strength: the hundred-fold resource advantage, the Fidesz propaganda-machine, the years of obstructing and deconstructing independent media and institutions, the feudalistic system of dependency and vulnerability, the mobilization capabilities and databases extending onto the entire population. We were armed with slingshots in a battle against a tank division.”
“Multiple other circumstances” Direkt36 missed
“I don’t know what the articles goal was by which it did not find it important to mention the multiple other circumstances which also influenced the campaign:”
According to the former prime ministerial candidate, these include:
- after the primaries, none of the parties mobilized for October 23
- four years ago, even the smallest opposition party spent much more on their campaign than the joint opposition this year
- the posters and billboards put up were late, they had small pictures, small letters, and dark backgrounds
- there were expensive articles and brochures which arrived late to the population, or did not arrive at all, and were often poorly designed
- party politicians often ignored the messages developed and accepted by the campaign team, “they practically never shared them, against their own convictions, they kept the tax-free minimum wage and the statement that we won’t send soldiers to Ukraine a secret – I wonder why?”
- “I was campaigned against by opposition-described politicians and public figures for months,” Márki-Zay said, adding that “the obstruction of the seventh political faction was more important to them then the joint victory.” Read More...
