Ruling Fidesz accuses largest opposition party Tisza of ‘attacking utility price caps in Brussels’
The opposition Tisza party has attacked the Hungarian government’s utility price caps in Brussels at the first opportunity, an MEP of ruling Fidesz said on Facebook on Saturday.
Deutsch: Tisza proposed to scrap price caps
Should price caps be scrapped as proposed in Tisza’s programme, “that would take two million forints from Hungarian families every year,” Tamás Deutsch said on Facebook.
Thanks to the measure, Hungarian families are paying the lowest electricity and gas prices in the European Union, he said.
“The dollar left” had earlier also tried to attack the utility price caps from Brussels, Deutsch said, pledging that the government would “protect utility price caps against Tisza as it did against the dollar left”.
Magyar: You are lying, as usual
Deutsch then concluded, “The Tisza is the new DK [Democratic Coalition-ed.], (Péter) Magyar is the new Gyurcsány [former PM-ed.]” The Facebook post received a reply from Péter Magyar. The chairman of the Tisza Party wrote to Deutsch: “You are lying, as usual.”
High price above price caps
It is important to note that energy in Hungary is price capped up to 2523 kilowatt hours per year for electricity. The price of 1 kWh of electricity below the consumption limit (210 kWh/month) is HUF 36, above that it almost doubles to HUF 70.1.
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