Government cheating Hungarian gas consumers?

The opposition Democratic Coalition has accused the government of “cheating” consumers paying blanket fees for natural gas when they “called a raise in utility prices a price cut”.

Deputy parliamentary group leader László Varjú told a press conference on Friday that the Orbán government had promised blanket price payers to receive discount prices, but “many are now facing sevenfold the earlier prices, up to HUF 100,000-200,000 (EUR 263-526)”. Meawhile, the “Orbán inflation” means that wages and pensions are worth less and less, Varjú added.

As long as Orbán is on power, the inflation and utility price rises will remain, he said. “The Social Democratic shadow government led by Klára Dobrev is preparing to curb inflation and raise wages and pensions,” he said.