Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany offered his resignation, thus becoming another victim of global economic crisis. However, his downfall was expected long before anyone could have imagined global crisis. His handling of Hungarian economy and arrogance towards voters brought violence on Hungarian streets in Autumn 2006.
One of Croatian bloggers makes comparative analysis between economic situation of Hungary under Gyurcsany and Croatia under Sanader and finds many disturbing similarities. His conclusion is that Gyurcsany and Sanader led their countries in rather similar ways with similar results. The post is titled "His Friend Ferenc and Him", which is pun on Sanader's habit to address leading European politicians with words like "My friend Bertie Ahern" or "My Friend Angela Merkel", thus showing his pro-European and statesman's credentials.
What the post failed to mention is that Sanader and Gyurcsany might indeed be similar in ways of governing, but that ideologically belong to different camps. Sanader's HDZ is right wing, while Gyurcsany MSZP (former Communists) is left wing.
The latter was roughly two years ago picked by Sanader's main rival Zoran Milanović who, trying to present his own international role models, picked Gyurcsany as someone "who admires and whose successes would like to emulate". Milanović did it *after* the October 2006 riots in Hungary, when everyone had some idea that Gyurcsany and his party wasn't that good.
With Milanović showing such lack of international perspective and vision failure of SDP in November 2007 elections doesn't look that surprising.
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