European Left: “The Hungarian right and its representatives is not worthy to chair the European Union”
The Party of European Left condemns the recent decisions of the Hungarian government that implements undemocratic, extremist and unacceptable policies against the workers and the poor, at the same time that this country just got the presidency of the European Union. The Hungarian right deserves neither respect nor trust and its representatives are not worthy to preside over the European Union.
The systematic degradation of democratic institutions, the authoritarian review of press freedom, the weakening of trade union rights are an insult to all democrats in Europe and the world.
We reject the Hungarian model.
Sarkozy, Barroso and Berlusconi support the Hungarian Prime Minister because they support the policies that flirts with the extreme right. Just as they support the neoliberal political forces that have imposed, over the recent years, policies friendly to the economic and financial international circles but that had prompted the Hungarian society to poverty and despair. By not condemning the Hungarian government's taking over of the EU presidency in the current circumstances, Sarkozy, Barroso and Berlusconi reveal their vision of a European model.
The Party of the European Left is in full solidarity with the Hungarian people and all Hungarian democrats who are mobilising and struggling for the emergence of an alternative in Hungary.
We support their struggle against this undemocratic government and its abuse of power.
EL president Pierre Laurent