Election 2018 – LMP candidate Szél pledges decent wages, support for families

Bernadett Szél, PM candidate of opposition LMP, has pledged decent wages, solving problems in the education system, social housing and higher support for families with a single child, if her party wins power in the upcoming election.

Speaking at LMP’s campaign closing rally in Budapest on Friday, Szél said an LMP government would “reduce the Russian influence, put an end to the hate-mongering campaign, and would not question anybody’s Hungarian identity”.

Szél said she would work to make Hungary “a country where young people return rather than escape from”.

Under LMP’s government “criminals stealing public assets” could not become politicians.

Szél said the election campaign was no longer democratic, but insisted that “most people can see through the government and want a change”.

She said Hungary had all preconditions in place to “become the winner of the next century”. “People think that their work is worth a decent salary and that they should not work in modern slavery,” she said.

Concerning family support, Szél said “it should not matter how many children or how many parents there are in a family”. She insisted that assistance should be granted not only when the parents have three children but when the first is born, and pledged doubling subsidies for single-child families.