Socialist leader says government is in a ‘moral crisis’

Budapest, March 10 (MTI) – Leader of the opposition Socialist Party József Tóbiás said on Thursday that the Hungarian government is in a state of moral crisis.

Addressing a press conferene in the city of Szombathely, in western Hungary, he said it is clear from the past few weeks alone that privileged people close the government are favoured and for whom everything goes while there are several million in Hungary who get nothing and nothing is permitted.

Tóbias listed issues such as his party’s thwarted initiative to hold a referendum on Sunday shopping, the excessive wages of state leaders, the sales of state farmland and the spending in the billions of forints by the central bank as ones on which Hungarian voters may express their opinions.

Rather than spending proper amounts of money on education and health care, the government insists on continuing with its “prestige investments”, spending several hundreds of billions of forints each year needlessly, he said.

Photo: MTI – Zsolt Szigetváry

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters