Renewed Coalition Off The Agenda

July 2008 | Risk Summary

The leader of Hungary's Alliance of Free Democrats, Gabor Fodor, has ruled out rejoining a coalition with the governing Socialists on June 21. At the same time though, Fodor stressed that he would continue to support government policy without a formal coalition structure and would only push for fresh elections as a 'last resort'. Our core view remains that the risks of early elections and policy paralysis will remain elevated in Hungary through at least the remainder of 2008.

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