PM Orbán: “everyone can see, they’re going backwards, not forwards”
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Orbán said poverty in Hungary was falling while the middle class were growing. Rural developments now receive three times what the previous government spent, he added.
You can find the previous parts of Viktor Orbán’s speech HERE (part 1) and HERE (part 2).
He said a work-based economy generated money for spending. With more jobs and higher incomes, he added, taxes could be maintained at a low level, freeing up disposable income for people to consume and invest.
The prime minister said that but for global inflation, the economy would have performed even better.
But the government had kept a lid on inflation by introducing caps on the price of fuel, household utilities, interest on loans and basic foods. Family benefits, he said, would be expanded.
On the subject of the pandemic, the prime minister said Hungary had been “the first to wake up” and take measures such as forming an operative body dedicated to handling the virus, purchasing ventilators, and readying hospitals in time. Hungary was also head of the queue for procuring vaccines and the “the first to reopen the country”.
Orbán said his government had settled the salaries of doctors, abolished gratuities paid by patients, and separated private from public health care under an agreement with the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors.
Thanks to developments in the health-care industry and the domestic production of masks, ventilators and medical aids, “we’re now producing what we … may need during another epidemic,” he said.
On the subject of migration, Orbán said every day hundreds of people were attempting to force their way into Hungary. Last year 122,000 made the attempt while more than 12,000 have done so in January this year alone, he said.
Bring on the mud slinging and election rhetoric. Ventilators that don’t work, vaccines we paid over the odds for and still don’t know the efficacy of, bribes, payouts. How far is he prepared to go. We’re only in February. Rather desperate to accuse the opposition of traffic jams, or is it something metaphorical. If Russia and China want Fidesz to win, then they’ll see to it that Fidesz does. Democracy can be bought and sold.
Wow, strong words from anonymous(aka Mario from America) Funny its your Daddy George Soros that buys elections and politicians all over the planet.