Mothers with their babies gathered in the Hungarian Parliament – here’s why with PHOTOS
Dóra Dúró, the deputy head of opposition Mi Hazánk, said the attention of public life and politics needed to be directed to mothers, “in whose hands lie the future”, speaking at the founding session of the “Mothers’ Parliament” on Saturday.
“Motherhood is an achievement not a restraint,” Dúró said at the event organised by her party and the Mother-Country Foundation, and held in a chamber of the parliament building. She pointed to the demographic crisis in Europe, ongoing for decades, and said population indicators in Hungary were the worst in the country’s thousand-year history.
She added that ideas devaluing children and mothers, and promoting voluntary childlessness were spreading, while the term “family” was being applied ungenuinely. Dúró outlined a 15-point package of recommendations her party had drafted to address the demographic crisis, including a rental home programme, preferential VAT rates for goods necessary for raising children, and linking the value of family subsidies to the rate of inflation.
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