PHOTOS, VIDEO: Opposition party removed fence in front of Orbán’s office

Politicians and supporters of opposition Momentum on Tuesday removed the metal fence in front of the prime minister’s office, today’s action being the sixth time they have done so.

Momentum said in a statement that despite “the police overreactions and tear gas attacks” of recent days, the party has once again removed the “unlawfully erected fence” in front of the former Carmelite Monastery, which houses the prime minister‘s office, in the Castle District. Today’s action was held to mark Europe Day, they said. “Removing the fence is removing the regime,” Momentum said. “There is no place for a fence in a European country, and on May 9, on Europe Day, we removed the fence,” it added.

The party’s lawmakers and politicians arrived in the company of around 50 activists at the prime minister’s office at 7am in the morning, and they plan to guard over the removed fence for several hours, Momentum said. “We will keep removing the fence as long as this is necessary,” it said. “It stands unlawfully, separating the government from the people and from reality,” it added. “In reality, Hungary has European record-high inflation at 25 percent, health care and education have been destroyed and the government keeps misleading people with constant lies,” Momentum said.

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Dobrev: Hungary has highest inflation, among lowest wages in Europe

Hungary has the highest inflation in Europe, and when it comes to wages, it trails near the bottom, opposition DK’s MEP and shadow prime minister Klara Dobrev said on Monday. Dobrev told a public forum in Szombathely that wages were higher even in neighbouring countries like Slovakia and Romania, which, she insisted, was the fault of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government. She said that over a decade, when European Union funding would have allowed the revamping of all hospitals and schools — making education competitive and bringing wages up to a fair level in order to close the gap with the rest of Europe — the money instead went to the oligarchs of the Orban government.

The majority of Hungarians still want Hungary to belong to the EU and NATO, and they want a European standard of living, she added. Dobrev said the reason that Hungarians faced food prices that many of them could not afford and people’s living standards had dropped was not the sanctions and the war but the ill-fated economic policies of the Orban government.

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