Őszöd speech
Ferenc Gyurcsány speaking at a party congress on 2 September 2006
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| Duration | 1 hour |
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| Date | May 26, 2006 |
| Location | Balatonőszöd, Hungary |
| Type | Speech |
The Őszöd speech (Hungarian: őszödi beszéd) was delivered by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány in Balatonőszöd in May 2006 to Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) members of the National Assembly of Hungary. This meeting was supposed to be confidential but the Prime Minister's speech was taped and Magyar Rádió (Hungarian Radio) began broadcasting it late afternoon on Sunday September 17, 2006.
The speech explicitly admitted the Socialist Party had lied to the electorate and that its coalition government had enacted no significant measures over its tenure.
It ignited mass protests around Hungary and rioting in Budapest and severely damaged public opinion of the Socialist Party, leading to the re-election of Viktor Orbán in the subsequent 2010 Hungarian parliamentary elections.
Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech given in Balatonőszöd during May 2006 starts with an approximately one-hour-long overview of the first proposed steps of the new social-liberal government. English translation of the controversial (second) part of the speech:
Hungary is heading to a breakdown. There's no way out." or it can be just a neutral statement, saying "We went through all the analyses on the situation of Hungary. We have all the results written down."]. So premising that what we do is far from being perfect, I cannot tell you a 'B' version. *cut*
Guys. We are not perfect. Not at all. We will not be either. I cannot say to you that everything will be fine. I can tell you, what I have been saying in the past one year. What can be carried out decently, what comes out from our talent, because we do not play special games, because we do not spend our energy on bullshitting with each other, because none has private interests, which otherwise would not stand publicity among us, because I am not willing to arrange something with you [the composition of this sentence is also incomplete in Hungarian].
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