The Őszöd speech ( hu, Őszödi beszéd) was a speech Hungarian Prime Minister

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delivered to the 2006

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(MSZP) congress in Balatonőszöd. Though the May congress was confidential, Gyurcsány's address was leaked and broadcast by '' Magyar Rádió'' on Sunday, 17 September 2006, igniting a nationwide political crisis. Liberally using vulgar language, Gyurcsány criticized the MSZP for misleading the electorate and said that its

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had enacted no significant measures over its tenure. The mass protests the speech's release precipitated are considered a major turning point in Hungary's post-

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political history. MSZP's inability to contain the speech's political fallout led to the popular collapse of MSZP and, more broadly considered, of the Hungarian

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, paving the way for

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's supermajority victory in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary elections.

Excerpts from the speech with their translations

Profane excerpts

Not only the content but also the

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of the speech has been heavily criticized. In response to the criticism concerning the profanity, Ferenc Gyurcsány stated that "these words were the words of objurgation, passion and

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" (""). While giving the speech, he used – among others – the Hungarian word ''szar'' (i.e.,

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) or its related terms (, , etc.) eight times and the word ' (i.e.,

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, whorish,

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ing) seven times. The following table presents some of the profane remarks – of which not everything has been translated by the foreign (i.e., non-Hungarian) press in general – with their corresponding translations. Although 'fucking country' is the best idiomatic translation because of the strength of the words, ''kurva ország'' literally means 'whore country', and the connotations of immorality, unprincipled pursuit of money and therefore corruption are very strong in Hungarian.

Other excerpts

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, then-chairman of

, called

"a compulsive liar" (" hu, beteges hazudozó") whom his party considers as "a person who is a part of history and the past" (" hu, a történelemhez és a múlthoz tartozó személy"). In addition to the excerpts above, the following table contains excerpts from the speech for which

has received heavy criticism.

References

* A teljes balatonőszödi szöveg (The whole text from the Balatonőszöd speech. In Hungarian): http://nol.hu/cikk/417593/ * The speech in mp3 format: http://dl.index.hu/dl/sziget/fleto/oszod5.mp3 * The speech on the

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(Hungarian) - http://kapcsolat.hu/blog/jojjon_az_eredeti_szoveg... *

: "These words were the words of objurgation, passion and love". ("''Ezek a korholás, a szenvedély és a szeretet szavai voltak''", Hungarian) - http://www.icenter.hu/cgi-bin/automatic/bianko.pl?szo=4800&cikk=0609285045007 *

: "This person [i.e.

] is a sick liar." ("''Ez egy beteges hazudozó.''", Hungarian) - http://www.mno.hu/index.mno?cikk=375107&rvt=2 * Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union considers

as "a person who is a part of history and the past". ("''a történelemhez és a múlthoz tartozó személy''", Hungarian) - http://index.hu/politika/belfold/ov0821/ * English translation by BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5359546.stm * English report as seen on BBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kh5TsREt4A {{DEFAULTSORT:Oszod speech 2006 in Hungarian politics 2006 speeches Political scandals in Hungary

Excerpts from the speech with their translations

Profane excerpts

Other excerpts

See also

References