Orbán’s daughter buys 94 hectares of vineyards in Hungary

The Hungarian Prime Minister’s daughter, Ráhel Orbán, has bought 94 hectares of vineyards in Hungary, including real estate, in the famous wine region of Tokaj for HUF 600 million (EUR 1,584,931).

Vineyards in Hungary all go to the wealthy

Ráhel Orbán, the daughter of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has acquired ownership of 94 hectares of land in the Tokaj wine region through two sales contracts, for which she paid a total of HUF 600 million.

The prime minister’s eldest daughter was registered as a farmer in Fejér County in 2021, which gave her the right to purchase the land. However, as she lives in Budapest, the locals could have made better use of it.

The sales contracts set a tight deadline, and Ráhel Orbán transferred the money within three days of the purchase, making it impossible for anyone to step in.

“I remember when the Lőrinc Mészáros team came here back in 2017 and bought the Andrássy Mansion in Tarcal. Everybody was on guard, not knowing what was going to happen to the land. When they were going to buy it? When the bag man was going to come? That’s what the farmers were afraid of, that’s what kept us up at night.. What would happen if Lőrinc Mészáros started farming here? What if they started buying up the land from the farmers? This is our biggest fear in the case of Ráhel Orbán, that she will set foot in the country and the expansion will continue, prompting an avalanche with no force to stop the wealthy and well-connected”, exclaimed László Bíró, a landowner and former right-wing politician.

Prices for plough land are low anyway because costs have risen and, in many places, local farmers are already making a loss.

Massive investment and monopoly

According to Bíró, “the Hungarian government and the Orbán family want to control everything from tourism to the wine industry and the processing plant”.

Ráhel Orbán told 24.hu that the land will continue to produce high-quality grapes in the future.

For the time being, no one has mentioned whether any of the local farmers would have wanted to exercise their right of first refusal, pointed out rtl.hu.

Interestingly, the land is located next to the Patrícius wine farm, which is owned by István Tiborcz (husband of Ráhel Orbán, son-in-law of Viktor Orbán).

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