WEATHER-COCK CAMPAIGN IMPORTED FROM AMERICA

Though the weather-cock has appeared also in the American presidential election campaign, one of the campaign leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Party claims this is their invention.

Campaign chiefs of Fidesz say the Socialists work not only according to American recipes but they copy Fidesz methods, too. The weather-cock symbol appeared in President Bush’s campaign referring to the quickly changing opinions of his opponent, John Kerry. American campaign advisers serving the Hungarian Socialists use this ’critical’ symbol, too. The Socialists show a preference for borrowing the slogans of Fidesz, too: “Work, Power, Safety” and “Change” are among them. Viktor Orbán, chairman of Fidesz has reacted recently to ’weather-cocking’ saying that Socialists prefer once Moscow, once Washington, once the red star, once democracy and talk about a wether-cock attitude. ’Let them talk if this makes them happy’.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó