Fidesz considers parliamentary session unnecessary, does not attend

Ruling party lawmakers did not attend an extraordinary parliamentary session on Monday initiated by the opposition parties to discuss the issue of battery plant constructions in Hungary, the ruling Fidesz group said.

A debate on battery plants will be on the agenda of the next regular meeting of parliament which makes Monday’s extraordinary session “unnecessary”, the statement said. The ruling parties maintain their demand that all investments must be carried out in line with the strictest environmental protection and security regulations, it added.

Among the speakers was Máté Kanász-Nagy. He said that the government has created a tax haven in Hungary, providing record high subsidies to foreign investors settling here, while dismantling the environmental protection system, Telex writes. The LMP representative considers it a mistake to want to attract energy-guzzling factories in the middle of the energy crisis and to bring water-intensive battery factories during the water crisis.

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According to Tímea Szabó of Párbeszéd, even the cowardly government knows exactly what most people know: battery factories are destroying Hungary, its land, its drinking water, and poisoning the air and soil. Szabó also said that Hungary’s electricity demand will increase by 30 percent with the planned battery factories, while there is already not enough energy, and natural gas has to be imported from Russia. She said that with the battery factories, the government will make the country even more at the mercy of the Russians. “Stop destroying the future of Hungary.”

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Source: MTI, Telex.hu