Here is the election program of the united opposition
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Hungary has a chance to “find its way back” to civic values and Europe at the April 3 election; the country’s interest is to have peace, security and progress, Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, said late on Wednesday.
At the event streamed online, Márki-Zay called for “peace in Europe and within Hungary’s borders. Security and reliability, secure livelihood for Hungary and Hungarians. Civic prosperity for all Hungarians, regardless of the colour of their skin, their origin, political views and sexual orientation.”
“In order to lift Hungary, we have to abandon Putin-esque methods and policies that betrayed Hungary’s allies, intentionally frayed the unity of Europe and helped the emporial ambitions of the war criminal Vladimir Putin,” he said.
Hungary’s security lies with strengthened border protection, the European Union and NATO,
he said. If the opposition comes to power, they will maintain the border fence and set up an independent border guard, while stop “police officers’ emigration” with robust wage hikes, he said.
Márki-Zay also called for a “new, value-based, Western-oriented” foreign policy. The opposition will review international agreements contrary to Hungarian interests, and “expel Fidesz migrants under outstanding international arrest warrants”.
The new government would leave family allowances in place while raising wages and pensions,
he said. He added that they would introduce the euro within five years. “We must abandon the misguided and unfair policy which pushed Hungarians into poverty because it was based on a weak forint,” he said.
Should the opposition receive the mandate to govern, they would exempt the minimum wage from PIT without raising PIT on other citizens, and double the family allowances and home care subsidy within four years, he said.
The thirteenth month pension will be maintained but pensions will be calculated according to a more favourable indexing, he said.
Besides women, men will also be allowed to retire after 40 years of employment; the same threshold for policemen and other servicemen would be 30 years,
he said.
Regarding the incumbent government’s utility fee cut scheme, Marki-Zay said “the real utility fee cut would be to curb corruption.”
He said the EU funds “currently withheld because of the Orban government’s corruption” would offer the swift way out of Hungary’s “almost hopeless economic situation [of] record deficit, record debt and record inflation”.