Hungarian Party Promises Free Beer (and Eternal Life)
Last week I penned a piece about the Two-Tailed Dog Party, a Hungarian political group that is turning the country’s current municipal elections on its … er… head.
You can read the piece in its entirety and see the accompanying photos on Demotix.
Among the promises on the Two-Tailed Dog Party’s present platform are building a metro line that would extend from Hungary’s eastern to western borders, placing a mountain in the Great Hungarian plain, setting up a Hungarian restaurant on Mars and eternal life (plus 20 years). Next to these grand plans, another of the party’s main objectives, eliminating taxes, seems relatively modest.
The party’s posters and billboards feature a two-tailed dog named Istvan Nagy. Istvan is the most common first name for men and Nagy is the most common surname in Hungary. With municipal elections slated for October 3, posters of Istvan have been sprouting up across Budapest. In them, the two-tailed canine has promised free beer, money for not working, and a 93 percent guarantee that the party will not steal funds from the public coffers if elected.
