Campaign Posters for the Hungarian Elections of 2006

For the Hungarian elections of 2006, Fidesz launched a series of posters with the title "Our live is worse than 4 years ago," referring to them being in power before the current socialist government took over 4 years ago. Despite the decidedly negative message in the posters, Fidesz claims that the poster campaign is very successful. (I hope it is not echoing their optimism during last elections when even half way through the elections they were saying that they are clearly winning. And then they lost.)

Below are some examples of these posters.


Hungarian elections poster: "Our live is worse than 4 years ago: 72% more unemployed among those starting their carreer."



Hungarian elections poster: "Our live is worse than 4 years ago: 70% less subsidized home owner's credit."


Hungarian elections poster: "Our live is worse than 4 years ago: 109% price increase for heart disease medicine."


Hungarian elections poster: "Our live is worse than 4 years ago: 400,000 unemployed."


Hungarian elections poster: "Our live is worse than 4 years ago: 69% price increase for domestic gas."

Although the mood of the above images is dark, there is something decidedly funny about them and the population was quick to notice this. The whole "our live is worse than" motto became a genre for jokes. You would hear things like "our live is worse than that of Chuck Norris." Below is an example of a T-Rex saying that their live is worse than 65 million years ago.


Hungarian elections poster parody: "Our live is worse than 65 million years ago."