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Keszaria: President Béla Kertész announces large right-wing coalition
By: Mauricio Kovács-Tomillo
Published: Dosa 26, 1584


President Béla Kertész's move has been understood both as a shift toward the right or an attempt to neutralize Keszarian nationalists through shared governance. Kertész was previously a member of the Messanic Democratic Party, before joining the Keszarian Democratic Movement in 1580.

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President Béla Kertész has announced there will be important changes in the national government, aimed to have a more effective and swiftly governance. For that reason, he has declared his intention to build a coalition government able to govern comfortably with a clear and coherent program, after meeting representatives of all the parliamentary groups and other political organizations. Béla Kertész will take office next week, which will start with a speech to the National Assembly, in which he is expected to announce his administration priorities for the next months. Kertész' political party, the Keszarian Democratic Movement, has a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, but it has been forced to govern in minority in both chambers of the parliament.

Many of the ministers under President Géza Békésy's administration, such as Minister of Defense Zándor Reményi, who was already confirmed, with only announced exception of Minister of Foreign Affairs Jenó Ligeti-Ekman who was elected as Vice President of the Keszarian Republic in the last presidential elections. Most of the ministers of Kertész administration are expected to be members of the Keszarian Democratic Movement, the center-right political party founded by President Géza Békésy and in which Kertész is a member himself. The number of independent ministers are expected to be reduced, or simply replaced by ministers of other political parties.

The controversial National People's Party, which has been defined in the past as a "radical-right" or "far-right" political movement in the past, will join the coalition government with four ministers. It is expected that those ministries are likely to be Public Works and Transportation, Foreign Affairs, Culture and Administrative Reforms, according to a leak published by Valuta newspaper. It is rumoured that former Vice President Gyöngy Székély will be appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, becoming the first woman in that position in Keszarian history. The leader of the National People's Party, Istzám Esterházy, however, is not expected to join the coalition government as minister, as he will rather continue as the parliamentary speaker of the National People's Party in the National Assembly, according to a report published by Nemzeti Hírlap.

The conservative Messanic Democratic Party is expected to be join the coalition government with two ministers, and it is highly likely that one of those ministries will be the Ministry of Education (the other is unclear, or at least most information on this issue has been contradictory so far). While the Messanic Democratic Party failed to enter in the parliament in the 1578 and 1582 elections, and his disappearance has been predicted for long, it is still have an important number of representatives in local governments, specially in inland and rural regions. It is expected that the Messanic Democratic Party will ruin in coalition with the Keszarian Democratic Movement in the coming local elections, as it had been rumoured for months.

The new national coalition government integrated by the two largest political parties of the country, will leave the weakened centrist Civic Democratic Union as the largest opposition political party in the National Assembly, with only 38 of 399 MPPs, while the Communist Party will become the largest opposition party in the Senate, but which is expected to be mostly testimonial, as the coalition government will have a large majority in both chambers, including a 2/3 majority in the Senate.

Coalition governments have been rare in the Keszarian Republic, as the presidents usely have a large majority at least in one of the chambers of the parliament or relied in a minority government, with the only exception of the first national unity government following Árpad Ormandy election as first democratic president of the Keszarian Republic (1559-1562), and the last governments of President Nándor Dohnányi-Persbrandt, when the country was in the middle of an economic depression.