Jobbik demands Orban, Lazar reveal info about alleged theft of public assets
Budapest, October 7 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the government office chief, Janos Lazar, to present facts and evidence about “who is stealing public assets”.
According to press reports, Lazar on Tuesday told a parliamentary supervisory subcommittee, in connection with the planned sale of state-owned farmland, that nobody would want “farming on a few hundred thousand hectares only for the Socialist-affiliated management to steal everything when the Socialists are in government or the Fidesz-affiliated management to steal everything when Fidesz is in government.”
Jobbik deputy leader Istvan Apati told a press conference that it is a “unique gangster logic” to prevent stealing through robbery. When public utility assets were nationalised, the government argued that the state would be a good owner. But now that 380,000 hectares of farmland are to be sold off, the government maintains the opposite, he added.
Apati said it is time that Orban and Lazar come forward with actual figures, names and facts.
He also demanded that the sale of farmland should be stopped.
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called on Lazar to file a report to police about any criminal activities he is aware of in connection with state-owned agricultural companies and land. DK deputy leader Tibor Nagy-Huszein told MTI that Fidesz is now saying that “it is much better if their oligarchs are stealing instead of their management”. Lazar has “admitted” that Fidesz cannot keep its cronies in state-owned agricultural companies under control, and it now wants to put farmland into the hands of the party’s clients.
The green opposition LMP said if the government has information about people stealing with state-owned farmland, then privatisation is not the way forward but a criminal report should be submitted.
LMP lawmaker Benedek R Sallai said Lazar had admitted that “farmland should be privatised because the Socialist and Fidesz governments took turns in stealing state-owned farmland”. If Lazar had such information, he should have filed a report to the police and farm minister Sandor Fazekas should have left his post, Sallai said.
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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