Hungary ex-PM poised to unseat Orban in 2014 elections

PanARMENIAN.Net - Hungary’s former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai faces one of the toughest political battles in the post-communist country as he forges a coalition to beat Prime Minister Viktor Orban in 2014 elections, Reuters reported.

Bajnai has set out to build a broad opposition alliance and draft a new program to help him oust Orban's ruling center-right Fidesz party, which has become the strongest political force in the central European country's recent history.

"This government is not governing the country," Bajnai, 44, told Reuters in his first interview with the international press since announcing his coalition last month on the anniversary of Hungary's 1956 revolution.

"They are using their two-thirds majority to build a regime," he said in the interview late last week. "We have to organize a large, strong political centre of people of different values, ideologies who want to live in a normal developing European country and not one that is drifting away from Europe."

Bajnai, whose movement Egyutt (Together) 2014 now ranks second in opinion polls to Orban's Fidesz, said his alliance would lead Hungary back from economic unorthodoxy and end what he said was democratic foul play in Orban's regime.