Péter Magyar: ‘Fake national security review’ distracts as health and economy in ruins in Hungary

Péter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza party, on Monday lambasted the government’s “bogus national security review” which he said was an attempt to divert attention from growing grocery prices, failing heating systems in hospitals and “the railway system falling apart”.

Magyar: no heating in the hospitals, unbearable inflation

Magyar said in a statement that many hospitals were without heating, and children’s wards were no warmer than 15 C. Meanwhile, the price of flour has grown by 40 percent in a year, that of chocolate by 30 percent and the price of dairy products by 20 percent, he said. He said the rail line between Veszprém and Ajka, in western Hungary, renovated six years ago, had become life-threatening and had to be closed down for six months. In other places, trains cannot travel faster than 10kmh, he added.

“Public services are falling apart, and the state is not functional,”

he added. Meanwhile, “ridiculously, [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán and others are trying to divert attention from all that by the well-worn method of panic-mongering.” “The government ranting about the threat of terrorism and launching a national security review has in past years directly interfered with the elections of other countries, let two thousand people smugglers go from prisons, invited the former president of Iran to Hungary in secret, allowed heads of state and government with outstanding arrest warrants to stay in the country, rejected the International Criminal Court’s ruling regarding the prime minister of Israel, set free an Azeri axe murderer, directly supported dictators, and sent Hungarian soldiers into zones of civil war,” Magyar said.