Opposition leader Magyar banned from Hungarian children’s homes, welcomed by crowds in “Fidesz’s capital”

Péter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, said that the government had admitted that many children’s homes are operating under “unacceptable circumstances” by banning him from visiting such homes.

In a statement to MTI, Magyar said he had received a letter from Attila Fülöp, the state secretary for social affairs, letting him know that he had been banned from institutions providing care.

With that step, “the government has openly admitted that gravely traumatised children are living in unacceptable circumstances, and that there is a dire shortage of work force due to humiliatingly low wages,” Magyar said in the statement.

MEPs have the right to information pertaining to their work from state institutions, just as children have a fundamental right to protection and care for their welfare, Magyar said.

Fülop’s letter “is simply lies and fearmongering,” he said.

“You can’t ban an MEP from children’s homes, especially not in an email. A real ban must be made through a public administration decision, against which legal remedies are in place,” Magyar said.

He said the party will revamp the bathrooms of a children’s home in Miskolc, which he said was in a state “not fit for human use”. “We will do this instead of the government, which has been unable for years to allocate 5 million forints to reconstruct the mouldy, wet bathrooms,” he said.

Liveable, successful rural Hungary key to future, says Magyar

There is no Hungarian future without a liveable, successful rural Hungary, Magyar said in Hajdúböszörmény, in eastern Hungary, on Sunday.

Speaking of the party’s plan to develop rural Hungary and the agriculture, Magyar said rural development would receive an independent ministry in “the Tisza government”, along with health care, education and environmental protection. The party would work to “save rural Hungary”, he said in a statement.

He slammed ruling Fidesz for “betraying its old supporters, farmers, family entrepreneurs and the senior citizens and youth of rural Hungary.”

While Hungarian youth are leaving their rural home towns, “the Orbán government is trying to supply the work force demanded by multinational companies with Asian economic migrants.”

Magyar vowed that Tisza would use the 220,000 empty buildings in rural Hungary to ease the housing crisis.

The party would also launch a comprehensive village rehabilitation programme and a land reform “to provide good opportunities for young farmers rather than oligarchs to buy farmland,” he said.

Further, Tisza would also develop the infrastructure of small localities, “and stop the mindless centralisation of the Orbán government”, he said.

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