The debate on the 2027 budget should be conducted once the draft is known, Fidesz parliamentary group leader János Bóka said at Monday’s sitting of parliament, responding to the prime minister’s speech before the agenda. Our Homeland’s group leader, László Toroczkai, said the prime minister had not said in his speech what the budget would cost, while the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) group leader called next year’s budget hostile to the middle class.
Fidesz’s Bóka complained that Péter Magyar had spoken for more than two hours about a budget that has not yet been submitted. He added that the prime minister had not mentioned such key parameters as inflation, economic growth and the public debt figures on which next year’s budget was based.
The government, he insisted, was not keeping a single election campaign promise to each occupational group, and there would be no wage rises of the scale Tisza promised.
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Meanwhile, Toroczkai said the prime minister had spoken about railway development, a rental housing construction programme and much else that would require the 6 trillion forints in European Union funding. He said that Tisza lawmakers and government members had earlier called that sum the cornerstone of the 2027 budget.
Bence Rétvári, the group leader of KDNP, called next year’s budget hostile to the middle class, employers and workers. The budget, he insisted, sought to smash the pillars of the earlier economic system that could have formed the basis of economic growth built on Hungarian businesses and Hungarian employers.
The government, he complained, had stripped the Fiscal Council of its veto right, although the council could genuinely have determined whether “the great pile of promises” would indebt Hungary.
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