COMMUNICATION: FIDESZ’S ACHILLES HEEL

10 June 2012

Once again Fidesz is revamping its communications structure and strategy. I have lost count how often this has happened since the 2010 election but it tells you one thing – the governing party has failed to get to grips with a key component of modern governance.

The reason behind this debacle is simple – inexperience and ineptitude.Too many of Fidesz’s media managers are actually very poor communicators and are simply not up to the job. More, they are simply not qualified.

A LETTER TO FIDESZ

6 January 2012

I probably don’t need to tell you that the media – both domestic and foreign – are having a great time at your expense. I also don’t need to tell you that much of it is ill-informed, lacking in objectivity and imbalanced. The attacks on your Prime Minister are both spiteful and malicious.

FIDESZ AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES: A CASE TO ANSWER?

18 August 2011

In a spate of recent articles, the Financial Times (FT) has been sharply critical of the actions of the Hungarian government and Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. Kester Eddy, the FT’s Budapest correspondent co-wrote an article on 3 August entitled “Hungary moves to charge former PMs” which was quickly followed a day later by an editorial entitled “Orban warfare”. Both articles expressed a clear opinion that the current Hungarian government was pursuing policies which in some way were anti-democratic, with a particular reference to the so-called threat to prosecute three former prime ministers for some sort of economic crime but also linked to the international outcry resulting from the recent introduction of the Media Law and a new constitution.