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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 27/01/2022
· Politics

Opposition pledges central bank reform

2022 Hungarian parliamentary election Democratic Coalition Hungary LMP National Bank of Hungary Socialists
Politicians of the joint opposition on Thursday pledged to renew fiscal and monetary policy and to reform the National Bank of Hungary (NBH), should the opposition win the general election on April 3.
 
Ágota Jánosi-Lesik, a candidate of the Democratic Coalition (DK), said the NBH “has become one of the most shamelessly profiteering institutions over the past 12 years.” She added that the NBH had failed to pay “profits from a weakening forint” into the budget in 2014. Instead, it ploughed 270 billion forints (EUR 750.5m) into foundations immediately before the ruling Fidesz party initiated legislation that made the foundations’ spending confidential information, “as they were no longer considered public funds”, she said.
 
“The NBH has become an uncontrolled state within a state, spending billions of public funding on luxury and disbursing public monies to friends and relatives as it sees fit,”
 
Jánosi-Lesik said.
 
Should the opposition win the upcoming election, the NBH will return to operating as a “strictly regulated institute of a democratic country, working in the interests of the Hungarian people,” she said.
 
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Zoltán Vajda, a Socialist MP candidate, called for new fiscal and monetary policy “so that Hungary regains the trust of foreign markets, and so inflation will be curbed and the forint strengthened.” One method to achieve that would be to set a date for introducing the euro, he said.
 
LMP lawmaker Antal Csárdi said that the 54 billion forint reconstruction of the central bank building had been undertaken by a company connected to a friend of NBH governor György Matolcsy’s family. “György Matolcsy’s job should be to
 
fight inflation rather than operating the central bank as a private ATM;
 
we can see no sign of that,” he said.
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Source: MTI

2022 Hungarian parliamentary election Democratic Coalition Hungary LMP National Bank of Hungary Socialists
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  1. Derrick Van der Lisle says:
    27/01/2022 at 21:38

    More empty promises…any lie to get elected. Not going to happen.

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