Mayor Gergely Karácsony twice presented nine points from the program of the so-called 99 Movement at an online event on Saturday. The prime minister-designate summarized the first nine points as making amends for the past ten years. According to Fidesz , it is clear from the left-wing programs what the Gyurcsánys really want: a tax increase, the downsizing of home building, the abolition of utility reduction and the restoration of paid healthcare.

The mayor emphasized that the implementation of these points can be started immediately and completed relatively quickly. He promised to abolish the "slave law" and jointly create a new Labor Code. The politician highlighted their idea that public workers should also receive the minimum wage.

Gergely Karácsony called the lowering of the compulsory school age a crime and stated that targeted programs should be launched for the further training of young people who have been "pushed out" of public education. Everything must be done not only to bring back the CEU restore the autonomy of Hungarian higher education , he stated. He also touched on the need to review the decisions that took away the church status from undertaking organizations that actually functioned as churches

The operation of state-run schools must be returned to the municipalities , and the situation that church-run schools receive much more state money rectified , he said. This must be solved by increasing the funding of public schools, the opposition politician added.

The crimes committed against the Hungarian countryside must be remedied, and the land privatization applications must be reviewed , stated Gergely Karácsony.

The prime minister-designate also touched on the fact that they want to open the traffic light to everyone .

Many things need to be fixed in relation to the pension system, but it is very important to remedy the damages against disabled pensioners , he said.

Turning to the other nine points, he said that it is necessary to talk about the problems of the past year and their reparation.

Most of the nine program elements could be implemented from the EU recovery fund, he said.

Gergely Karácsony announced that restart support those small and medium-sized businesses whose sales revenue decreased to a large extent during the coronavirus epidemic. He also proposed that small businesses whose income decreased by fifty percent during the pandemic be exempted from paying the social contribution tax for two years.

payment of the job search allowance to nine months , and those who only received this support for three months should be compensated afterwards, because it is now not possible to find a job in the Hungarian labor market in three months, he stated.

Those employees who had to go on sick pay during the epidemic because there was no other way to solve their situation must also be compensated afterwards, said Gergely Karácsony. He did not address it in detail verbally, but in the program item projected during the speech, it was written that the sick pay used during the epidemic will be supplemented to 100 percent afterwards.

The health and social workers should be thanked with a one-time grant, said the mayor. According to the announcement, workers in the two sectors one-time subsidy of HUF 500,000 .

The co-chairman of Párbeszéd said that "the government has made an amazing hole in the functioning of local governments" with the business and vehicle tax that has been taken away. Gergely Karácsony also promised to abolish special economic zones.

"Perhaps I will rename the Tiborcz tax and remove the letter, and then it will not be about István Tiborcz, but will represent Tiborc's complaint in politics," he said when he moved on to the last agenda item.

Sources need to be found for local governments, so local taxation of assets worth more than half a billion forints is the right thing to do, he added. The epidemic and the crisis did not affect everyone in the same way, many businesses are struggling to survive, and many have grown amazingly in recent years, he pointed out.

Those who gained extra profit during the epidemic, those who became stronger, must contribute to replenishing the compensation fund , which the "Butcher's tax" will also be introduced , even for those businesses that benefited from the past year, said Gergely Karácsony.

These are the first measures that the next government, "let's say a next Christmas government", must take to make Hungary a common home for all of us again, he stated.

Finally, he announced that in the coming weeks, focusing on nine areas, they will present the additional programs that also serve the reunification of Hungary.

The event was attended by several invited guests, the first of whom Orsolya Sudár , a member of the board of the Szikra Movement, who said that the settlement of wages, poverty and housing, as well as workers' rights, are issues that cannot now be answered non-politically. give.

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András Nemény , the mayor of Szombathely, stated that after a possible change of government, clear, predictable funding and powers must be given to local governments.

Gábor Polyák , the head of the Mérték Media Analysis Workshop, stated that autonomy means independence, a situation that does not depend on the government that "distributes money and favors".

László Kordás, the president of the Hungarian Trade Union Association, called their experience with the government's handling of the coronavirus epidemic negative.

Fidesz: The Christmas program is the same as what Gyurcsány wrote in his pen earlier

According to the communications director of Fidesz, the program of the 99 Movement, which was presented by Mayor Gergely Karácsony on Saturday, does not contain anything new compared to the previously presented left-wing program, which was "written in pen" by DK President Ferenc Gyurcsány.

István Hollik told MTI by phone that the mayor's program actually echoes the politics of Ferenc Gyurcsány, which is further proof that "Gergely Karácsony is 99 percent Ferenc Gyurcsány".

"The two of them would bring back the politics of the past, to which people once very firmly said no, because the politics of the left, the politics of Ferenc Gyurcsány, brought Hungary to the brink of bankruptcy," said the politician.

According to István Hollik, it is clear from the left-wing programs so far what the Gyurcsánys really want: a tax increase, the reduction of home construction, the cancellation of utility reduction and the restoration of paid health care.

"They, the left, have already proven once that this policy, Ferenc Gyurcsány's policy, will destroy Hungary. Now Gergely Karácsony and Ferenc Gyurcsány want to bring this policy back," said the Fidesz communications director.

MTI

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