- Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party
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An example of Two-tailed Dog Party fake political posters: this poster is captioned "For a smaller Hungary!", in reference to Hungarian irredentists supporting the revocation of the Trianon Treaty.
The Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party (Magyar Kétfarkú Kutya Párt) is a joke political party in Hungary. It was founded in Szeged in 2006.
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Political activity
All of the electoral candidates are called István Nagy. The name was chosen because Nagy is the single most common surname in Hungary, and István is a very common first name.
The Two-tailed Dog Party is not a registered political party, but planned to participate in the 2006 elections. The party made the following promises: eternal life, world peace, one work day per week, two sunsets a day (in various colours), smaller gravitation, free beer and low taxes. Other promises include building a mountain on the Great Hungarian Plain.
The party is on good terms with another joke party, the Fourth Way, which is led by two birds. However, there are some disagreements between them, since Fourth Way plans to abolish bird flu, and this is opposed by the Two-tailed Dog Party, in accord with virus rights principles.
The election posters could mainly be seen in Szeged. Most of the posters featured the candidate, István Nagy, who is a two-tailed dog, with inscriptions like "He is so cute, surely he doesn't want to steal".
2010 Budapest mayoral elections
In 2010, the party announced their candidacy for mayor of Budapest.[1] Campaign slogans include "More everything, less nothing!", "Eternal life, free beer, tax-deduction!" and "We promise anything!".[2]
Street art
Recently[when?] the party has been a strong advocate of freedom of expression and artistic license. This position is expressed by political slogans on walls and pasting posters in Szeged.
The party's main activity is street art - graffiti, stencils and various posters. These are often humorous, while providing stark criticism towards various company policies,[3] the state of Hungarian railroads,[4] imitate stickers of entrepreneurial advertisements,[5] sabotage large billboard signs[6] or provide simple meta-humour.[7]
See also
References
- ^ http://xpatloop.com/news/budapest_mayoral_candidates_must_try_harder
- ^ http://kutyopressz.blog.hu/2010/08/08/letoltesnyomtatas
- ^ "We're sorry about the climate change."
- ^ "Our trains are deliberately dirty."
- ^ http://www.mkkp.hu/vallalkozok.html
- ^ http://www.mkkp.hu/oriasplakat.html
- ^ "What are we doing?" "Disguising ourselves as posters."
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