The Christian Democrats this week rejected a motion submitted to a committee on child hunger by deputies of all other four parliamentary parties and independent leftist lawmakers to avoid supporting a left-wing campaign, the party’s group leader said. That’s not a joke. Péter Harrach told public radio on Tuesday morning that although his party fully agreed with the programme’s objectives, the opposition had “monopolised” the issue of child hunger, and the Christian Democrats would have ended up supporting a left-wing campaign had they voted for the motion. Well done, there. Well done, indeed. To paraphrase John McCain (when the senator was talking about the appointment of Colleen Bell to Hungary): I am not against politics. I understand how the game is played, but this is pushing it. Especially since I fail to see what the problem with the bill was or how it went against the beliefs of the Christian Democrats or how rejecting it could be a smart political move. There was no rider attached – a rider is a provision added to a bill having little connection with the subject matter – so this was simply sticking it to the opposition. And I’m OK with that too. After all, I’m a journalist and we like it when things are happening and there is something to report about. But this is not a topic to be played with. We’re talking about child hunger, and any proposal to reduce it, even if it comes from Doctor Evil himself, should be welcomed. Especially by the Christian Democrats…
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