Fidesz calls on govt to launch ‘National Consultation’ on EU Russia sanctions
The Fidesz and Christian Democrat parliamentary groups are asking the government to launch a “National Consultation” public survey on European Union sanctions against Russia.
Máté Kocsis, the Fidesz group leader, told a press conference held during the break of a meeting of the two governing parliamentary groups on Thursday that the survey’s focus would be energy sanctions, giving Hungarians the chance to express their opinion on this matter too.
Hungarians, he added, would be the first in Europe to give their opinion on the sanctions.
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The government will refer to the views of Hungarians in European debates on the matter, he added.
European sanctions will be a central theme in autumn legislative sessions both in Hungary and the rest of Europe, he said. EU sanctions brought in at the start of the summer have not lived up to expectations, he added. “This isn’t what the Brussels elite promised European citizens.”
After the first sanctions package, energy prices doubled in a single month and then tripled, he said. Russia became richer and Europe poorer, he added.
Kocsis vowed that the ruling parties would work during the autumn session to ensure the abolition of energy sanctions.
Meanwhile, he said the ruling parties will launch a national security review of left-wing party campaign financing from abroad. Kocsis insisted that in the past thirty years, it was unprecedented for a left-wing prime minister candidate — as Péter Márki-Zay did — to “carelessly or deliberately” admit that several billion forints in campaign support had come from abroad.
“We are facing one of the most outrageous political scandals of the past thirty years,” he said, adding that campaign financing to political parties from abroad was against the law in Hungary.
On the topic of the energy crisis, the Fidesz group leader called on citizens to conserve energy, and he said the government had started doing so, noting that it was 18 C. in the conference room of the hotel where the group meeting was held.
Parliament’s chief items on the autumn session’s agenda include proposals for expanded family support to be introduced from January 2023 and decisions necessary for a funding deal with the European Commission. To strike this deal, a deviation from house rules will be requested to pass some of the necessary legislation by the Oct. 4 deadline. The votes of four-fifths of MPs are needed to achieve this, so the support of some opposition politicians is required, he added.
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Source: MTI
Oh for goodness sake. These “national consultation surveys” are nothing but a waste of time and money. The questions asked are so leading that they know the response before they’ve even collated the answers. Not valid and no doubt will even try and use Soros’ name in there somewhere. And then present the findings to whom……?
Put the money elsewhere in our economy instead of this nonsense. Sounds as though he’s really panicking, smacks of desperation. All these promises but can he deliver, seems not…….
After giving his speech Lavrov walked out of the UN meeting yesterday, wonder where little Peti was. This questionnaire is no different to the so called ‘referendum’ Putin is holding for the Donbas region. Pathetic.
Let’s blow a load of cash, formalize the confirmation bias and that the People are getting their information from the Preferred Media Sources using leading questions … Why, exactly ? Pretend we have a fully functional democracy ? Or … Politicians engaged in a show of self righteous European Union bashing (but keep that money coming, please! We’ve already spent it!)
Waste of money. Not worth the paper it’s written on. Leading questions. Might as well collate answers now. Not a legally binding document. Who’s going to care what we think. Probably put Soros’ name in there somewhere. Will be viewed the same as Putin’s pathetic referendum attempt. Money would be better spent saving businesses.
Orban’s running scared. Somewhere down the road what his government has done to our country will be exposed……..
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PM Orbán, please push your Russian buddy to surrender and leave Ukraine, pay reparations, and jump out of a window. That would be time and money well spent.