Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said that Viktor Orbán, his predecessor, “will not be given his severance pay of HUF 38 million (EUR 105,000).”

Orbán not to get severance pay

“Under the law he signed … Orbán would be entitled to HUF 38,801,013 severance pay for plundering Hungary,” the prime minister said on Facebook on Friday. “He will not get it,” Magyar added.

The politician had previously announced that, like the former prime minister, the ministers of the outgoing Fidesz-KDNP government would not receive severance pay. The members of the outgoing government intend to donate their severance pay to a children’s home in Transcarpathia.

Investment minister: Former govt spending on Castle District projects around HUF 500-1,000bn

Dávid Vitézy, the minister for investment and transportation, estimated the former government had spent or committed HUF 500-1,000 billion for the reconstruction of government buildings in the Castle District at a press conference on Friday.

Joined by Prime Minister Péter Magyar and Interior Minister Gábor Pósfai, Vitézy said the National Hauszmann Programme, in which the buildings were renovated and rebuilt, was “practically the only” government investment scheme that was never cut or suspended. In the meantime, there was never enough money for child welfare, healthcare, transportation or the railways, he added.

Gulyás welcomes govt decision to complete ‘Castle District’s historic reconstruction’

Gergely Gulyás, Fidesz’s parliamentary group leader and former head of the Prime Minister’s Office, welcomed the new government’s decision “to complete the Castle District’s historic reconstruction within the framework of the Hauszmann Programme.”

Reconstructing the buildings damaged during the Second World War or destroyed during communism “is a good cause and an act of historical justice after decades of ‘let us dare to be small’ policy,” he said on Facebook.

At a press conference earlier on Friday, held after they removed the barriers around the former Prime Minister’s Office in the Carmelite Monastery, Prime Minister Magyar pledged to review all projects regarding buildings in the district, and to find their “best function.” He said the new government would not leave unfinished constructions and would work to complete all works in a cost-effective manner.

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