The Hungarian parliament voted down on Monday a motion submitted by opposition party Hungarian Democratic Forum to dissolve itself and make way for early elections.
According to reports of the Hungarian News Agency MTI, the motion was rejected by 204 MPs while 171 supported it. It would have needed a simple majority to pass.
The minority governing Socialists and their former ally, the Free Democrats voted down the motion, while other opposition parties voted for it.
Zoltan Hock, whose party submitted the motion last week, called on MPs to vote rationally, fearlessly, and not to listen to the prime minister. He said the government had lost a majority in the parliament since May 1, 2008, and except the Socialist Party, no parliamentary party supported the prime minister's program.
Tibor Navracsics, parliamentary group leader of major opposition party Fidesz, which supports early elections in the country, charged the government with lacking a concept.
Christian Democrat Peter Harrach said that 70 percent of the population believes that things are going poorly.
Janos Koka of the opposition party Alliance of Free Democrats said that his party had no reason to support the motion. He said the Hungarian Democratic Forum's proposal was not sincere.
Istvan Gondor of the Socialist Party said the opposition had no its program and was irresponsible.
Deputy head of the Socialist party's parliamentary group Jozsef Tobias said at the same day that the Socialists unanimously believed that "the dissolution of parliament would not serve the goals of economic growth, developments nor more effective access to European Union funding."
The Socialist party is 5 votes short of passing the 2009 budget, a part of which is Gyurcsany's tax cut plan, which has been rejected by the opposition.
Navracsics said Fidesz intends to submit its own motion to dissolve parliament on Nov. 15 if the government fails to pass its2009 budget.
Source:Xinhua
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