PM Orbán urges people to stay home, but his best friend goes to Dubai
In a radio interview, the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, asked all citizens to stay at home. Most people accept this order, but some oligarchs close to Orbán continue to travel.
Tímea Szabó, the fraction leader of the Párbeszéd Party, submitted a question to Viktor Orbán. She wondered if Orbán had spoken to oligarchs connected to Fidesz about giving up their luxury trips. The question is quite timely because Orbán was asking people to cancel their trips in an interview on a state radio station, writes 24.hu.
“The problem now is that the mutant viruses are reaching Hungary because of travellers coming home from extraordinary destinations, such as Tanganyika, the Maldives, or Dubai. Therefore, now I am asking everyone to postpone such luxury vacations at these high-risk places. Not because we envy them for such a thing, for if they have the money, they can do so, but it is a matter of bringing home viruses with unknown mutants and putting others at risk here – not themselves but others. This has already happened in several cases, so I strongly urge everyone to postpone such travel plans,” says the Hungarian Prime Minister.
In contrast, people close to the NER (Hungarian System of National Cooperation) are frequent visitors to Dubai.
In addition, the opposition politician inquired whether the millionaires who travel would comply with the epidemiological measures upon their return home. Tímea Szabó pointed out that this exceptional treatment is unacceptable. The leader of the Párbeszéd fraction named the private jet that goes to exotic destinations quite often “NER-Tours”. Lőrinc Mészáros and his family are frequent guests on this plane.
It has become an increasingly popular topic in the Hungarian press that Mészáros travels a lot with this private jet.
That is probably the reason why Mészáros wanted to block the private jet’s flying data. According to Tímea Szabó, it is outrageous that many businesses and families find it difficult to survive on a daily basis, while some others completely ignore the rules.
Not only Lőrinc Mészáros and his family visited Dubai recently but also the daughter of virologist János Szlávik. The chief doctor, who is one of the main faces in Hungary of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, recently stated that he would not buy a flight ticket even for the summer. So, according to him, it is not really worth planning a trip abroad due to the epidemic. In contrast, his daughter was also in Dubai, just as the third wave of the epidemic started to peak and the number of people infected and hospitalised was steadily increasing.
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Source: 24.hu
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