Mesterházy, facing criticism for the party’s poor showing in the recent general election, dismissed calls for him to resign.

“I accept and grasp all criticism, but I think that in this special situation it would be far more damaging if we were not to follow the process through,” he said, adding, however, that party decisions had been taken collectively and often unanimously.

“Those people who most vociferously called for unity are now the ones most loudly criticising precisely that,” he said, referring to the parties of the left which formed an electoral alliance for the April 6 election.

But pressure for the entire left wing to come together had been “enormous”, he added.

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