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Opposition declares objection to government’s treatment of local councils, epidemic response
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Hungarian opposition parties have jointly declared their objection to the Orbán government “bleeding dry local councils” and its “irresponsible epidemic handling and crisis management”.
“Robbing our cities is not governance,” according to the statement issued by the opposition alliance on Thursday, signed by party leaders Andras Fekete-Győr (Momentum), Ferenc Gyurcsány (Democratic Coalition), Péter Jakab (Jobbik), Ágnes Kunhalmi and Bertalan Tóth (Socialists), Tímea Szabó and Gergely Karácsony (Párbeszed), Erzsébet Schmuck and Máté Kanász-Nagy (LMP).
The statement accuses the government of “abandoning government responsibility in the hardest of times as well as millions of Hungarians”.
It also charges the government with using public funds to support its own clientele rather than handling the epidemic and “the economic crisis”, spending “hundreds of billions” on stadiums, motorsports and the prime minister’s residence.
The opposition alliance said halving local business taxes would not provide meaningful help to troubled businesses but it would jeopardise public services provided by local councils across the country by depriving them of vital revenue, forcing many into bankruptcy.
The statement says local councils run by the opposition would have to contend with austerity imposed by the central government seven times as severe as that affecting Fidesz-led councils. Further, a “vast majority” of county seats run by opposition mayors were excluded from central compensation funding, it added.
I fear for humanity when the hunger for power is so strong that we sacrifice everything the makes us human.
If negative attitudes and the continual wringing of hands were a virus like COVID, humanity would be down to a couple of hundred people. This horribleness will pass, as all things do…..there will rich and powerful people and poor bedraggled people still standing when all is said and done. Not all the gloom and doom songs of the many will kill the human spirit.