De Europese verkiezingen zijn geweest. De kleine Europese koehandel op nationaal niveau hebben we achter ons gelaten. Partijen hebben op nationaal niveau laten weten met wie ze – in niet democratisch besloten – pacten samenwerkingen aan zouden gaan. De zetels worden op basis van het aantal stemmen en de niet democratische afspraken verdeeld en op basis van de zetelverdeling gaan leidende functies uitonderhandeld worden, waarvoor nu de internationale koehandel (of is het meer een stierenhandel?) kan beginnen.
Het doel van de handel is in ieder geval om door manipulaties en beleidsafspraken de eigen posities zo veel als mogelijk te versterken en om de anders denkenden – ook al hebben ze gewonnen – uit te schakelen. Die Nederlandse praktijk is kennelijk “verinternationaliseerd“, of is het omgekeerde het geval?

In het kader van inzaken.eu wil ik niet te veel politiseren en om geen bron van misverstanden te worden wanneer het over Hongarije gaat, kopieer ik de letterlijke Engelstalige teksten van het Hongaarse “ANP”:

FIDESZ WINS 12 EP SEATS
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance won the European parliamentary vote with 51.49% amid low turnout of just 28.92% in Sunday’s vote. Fidesz secured 12 European parliamentary mandates. Radical nationalist party Jobbik came second with 3 seats while the Socialists only managed 2 mandates. The Democratic Coalition will send 2 eurodeputies while E-PM received a single one and green party LMP also appeared to have secured one seat after just scraping above the 5% threshold.
“We’ve won; we’ve won big-time!” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a crowd of supporters. Fidesz secured the best result in the EPP group, he noted. Fidesz’s elected representatives will be “the troops sent forward,” who can protect the homeland abroad, Orbán said. The party’s MEPs will work to win respect for Hungarians and represent their interests, as well as making the voice of Hungarians heard in Brussels. Hungarians are united in rejecting extremes, he added.
In the countryside the radical nationalist Jobbik party came second after Fidesz while the Socialists were third in all but two counties. Hungary will have 21 eurodeputies in the next parliament.

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SOCIALIST LICK WOUNDS, RIVALS SATISFIED
Socialist Party leader Attila Mesterházy said that the party’s presidium would offer its resignation to the board after the party’s poor EP election showing.
The radical nationalist Jobbik party has managed to meet its goal in the European election, becoming Hungary’s second power, party leader Gábor Vona declared. He said one of the important messages of the EP election for domestic politics was that Jobbik is now the second power and that the Socialists have collapsed. It follows that Jobbik can become Fidesz’s challenger — “a great
responsibility,” Vona said. The success of eurosceptic, euro-realist parties throughout Europe
also proves that “all of us would like to have a common Europe but something totally different from what is offered to us now,” Vona said.
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the Democratic Coalition’s leader, said the result would embolden his leftist party to continue playing a “very determining role in opposition,” and to be the “fiercest
enemy of [PM Viktor] Orbán’s tyranny”.
The E-PM alliance co-leader Gordon Bajnai said he was “satisfied and proud” of E-PM’s showing.
LMP list-leader Tamás Meszerics said that as things stand now, Hungary would have a green eurodeputy.
The green LMP party scored 5.01 percent of votes nationwide, just above the threshold for a mandate. The figure is based on preliminary results after 99.99 percent of votes were counted.
Votes cast abroad could influence whether or not LMP gets into the European Parliament.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said that all Hungarians will have strong national representation in the European Parliament in the next cycle. It is of key importance that
Transcarpathia in western Ukraine and Vojvodina would be sending representatives to the EP as well, he added.
Fidesz has shown that it can count on its core support, proven by the fact that the party won with such a low turnout, political analyst Ágoston Sámuel Mráz of the Nézopont Institute said.

Wat alle opmerkingen waard zijn zal in de komende maanden blijken, net zo goed als de waarde van dreigementen over opstappen door sommige verliezers. Ze hebben dan wel verloren, maar het zakgeld dat ze kregen of kunnen krijgen is en blijft aantrekkelijk. Zeker naar Hongaarse normen…