Péter Magyar: Orbán ‘driving country to bankruptcy’

Budapest, February 25 (MTI) – Péter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “is driving the country to bankruptcy”.

Péter Magyar: Orbán of “lying about growth”

Magyar accused Orbán of “lying about growth” and making false claims about falling inflation. “He has actually caused an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and inflation,” he said, dismissing Orbán’s insistence that Hungary awaited a “fantastic year ahead”.

“The performance of the Hungarian industry and agriculture is deteriorating, investments are at a record low, the public debt and deficit are skyrocketing and inflation is galloping again,” Magyar said. He accused Orbán of “plundering” the people, companies “and even the smallest municipalities”. Hospitals and kindergartens outside Budapest were being dismantled, he said, while post offices and railway branch lines were being shuttered.

“It is clear by now that if Orbán and company sticks around, they will push [Hungary] into insolvency and bankruptcy,” he said. He insisted that “despite recent promises, Orbán’s real plan is to take back everything twice over, to privatise the state-funded health-care system and to burden the futures of our children and grandchildren with debt.”

“The tired, burnt-out mafia boss can only make promises now, and … is trying to set Hungarians against Hungarians. Orbán knows that the System of Joint National Criminality is at an end but … they will still steal whatever they can: railway stations, castles and the future of Hungarians,” he said.

Ruszin-Szendi sacked from university position ‘on political instructions’

As we wrote earlier, Orbán’s cabinet said chiefs of staff should avoid party politics if they strengthen the opposition rather than Fidesz, details HERE.

Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, Hungary’s former chief of staff, has been “fired from the National Public Service University with immediate effect, obviously on political instructions,” the leader of the opposition Tisza Party said in a statement on Monday.

According to Péter Magyar’s statement, the dismissal was a “pathetic, cowardly and at the same time ridiculous move … they didn’t even dare to indicate that the reason was Ruszin-Szendi’s joining Tisza.”

The former chief of staff has been reported to address a recent rally organised by Tisza.

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