MEP Dobrev: Orbán cabinet pulling country ‘downwards’

Over the last 14 years, the government headed by Viktor Orbán has pulled country downwards, Klára Dobrev, the top-ranked MEP joint candidate for the opposition Democratic Coalition, the Socialists and Párbeszéd said at a campaign stop in Salgótarján, in northern Hungary, on Monday.

Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, and Kata Tüttő, also an MEP candidate, also addressed the event.

Dobrev said the Baltics, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia had all overtaken Hungary, and some locals in the south even commuted to work in Romania because they received higher wages and even travelled there to see a doctor. She added that Bulgaria would also gradually “overtake” Hungary.

Dobrev said a good outcome for the opposition in the EP and local council elections would enable the opposition to call for an early general election.

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