Following the establishment of six consulting bodies with a total of 54 members last November, Gyurcsány appointed Zsolt Érsek, Mayor of Hatvan, as his advisor on municipal issues. Érsek was one of the speakers calling supporting Gyurcsány’s nomination for PM at the Socialist Party’s (MSZP) congress last August. Besides Érsek, Gyurcsány appointed István Tukacs, deputy mayor of Nyíregyháza, as his coordinator between him and representatives of municipalities.

Gyurcsány appointed Ferenc Wekler, a prominent SZDSZ member and a recently resigned deputy chairman of the House, as government commissioner in charge of managing radioactive waste. (In the 1980s Wekler acted as leader of a civil movement against a planned nuclear waste site near Bélapátfalva, Northeast Hungary.

In the meantime, it was revealed by a recent question from the opposition in Parliament that the Prime Minister’s Office employed Gábor Görgey, a former Culture Minister in the Medgyessy-led government, as a chief advisor, paying him HUF 7 million a year.