Should the board, convened for Saturday, accept the offer it will take 45 days for the new party officials to be elected. For this reason, it should be duly considered if the Socialists should really reshuffle their leadership just before the municipal elections, he said.

Mesterházy said he did not want to give up his other post as parliamentary group leader, which is “another field of politicking”. He attributed the party’s poor showing to its failure to mobilise supporters after the April 6 general election, which had probably “deeply disappointed” the Socialist electorate.

Another possible reason for the low turnout, he said, was that Socialist voters did not realise the significance of the European elections.

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