Fidesz is asking for the credit moratorium to be maintained

Máté Kocsis indicated: on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's political information was heard, as well as Ministers Miklós Kásler and Sándor Pintér's report on the successful defense against the coronavirus epidemic. Minister Katalin Novák analyzed social life, and Minister Péter Szijjártó analyzed the issues of reopening the economy.

Regarding the latter, Máté Kocsis, leader of the representative group of Fidesz and István Simicskó, the Christian Democrats, said that according to the Fidesz-KDNP factional alliance, achieving 5.5 percent economic growth is a realistic goal , but we have to work for it. They added: the government effectively and credibly organized the defense against the epidemic, which contributed to the fact that

In Hungary, compared to EU countries, the opening could start a month and a half earlier, which means a one percent increase in growth.

According to Máté Kocsis, in case of significant economic growth, taxes on labor can be reduced , which leads to wage increases, the minimum wage can be HUF 200,000 and the minimum wage for graduates 260,000. In 2021, personal income tax will be paid, the youth tax will be abolished and six months of gun money will be paid to law enforcement officers.

It was also discussed at the parliamentary group meeting that during the reopening " we have to find points of agreement with ourselves " , the national consultation will be about life after the epidemic, he emphasized. He added: it is a difficult time, a much more dangerous world is coming, the age of epidemics and migrations is coming, there will be increasingly fierce competition for investments and jobs.

The Hungarians must be strengthened with all existing economic means: if the country is strong, the financial situation of the people is strengthened, they can be more resistant to challenges, he added. At the same time, in addition to the epidemic, migration and economic challenges, there is also a danger in Hungary if the past returns - Máté Kocsis interpreted the position of the Fidesz faction.

The faction leader said

„Ferenc Gyurcsány is a potential threat if he returns to power”.

He added: Gyurcsány leads the team that unites their political opponents, the others, including " the mayor, who falls on his nose at every threshold ", are only episodic characters. Gyurcsány will deal the cards, and the election will be about whether " (...) the bloody, violent, austerity politics will return ", said Máté Kocsis.

István Simicskó indicated at the press conference: their seventeen-member faction held a separate meeting in Debrecen on Wednesday afternoon, after which the faction association listened to the briefings of the prime minister and the members of the core. The members of the KDNP faction are also of the opinion that the government has effectively and credibly organized the defense against the epidemic, according to them the reopening is a key issue, and it is very important to ask people's opinions in the framework of the national consultation.

The politician called the just concluded parliamentary term successful: 102 laws were passed, KDNP representatives spoke in parliament 388 times.

In the light of next year's budget, he called the support for families exemplary, which he thinks people should also be asked about at the consultation.

According to István Simicskó, it is a huge success for Hungary to be able to organize one of the world's largest military parades, the Eucharistic congress, " the strengthening of Christianity is a huge message ", he said.

„It is surprising that an anti-pedophile law is being brutally attacked”

Máté Kocsis stated in response to a question, noting that this was not discussed at the faction meeting, after the law had already been adopted. The protection of children is a common European value, and the law is about strict action against pedophilia and the protection of children, he said. He added: it is the parents' job to educate, and it is the state's job to protect children and punish pedophiles.

Answering another question, he sharply criticized Ferenc Gyurcsány, whom he called a criminal in the economic and social sense with his rhetoric is driving Hungarian relations in the direction of civil war" and - as he added -

„many people would like to create an operative tribe to stop Ferenc Gyurcsány”.

In response to a question, the Fidesz faction leader called the proposal of Ágnes Vadai, representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that the secret of confession could be lifted in case of pedophile crimes, a " pure anti-church provocation only Hitler and Vadai initiated this" in history . István Simicskó also spoke about an attack against the church, something that even the wildest communist dictatorships did not aspire to.

In response to a question, Máté Kocsis briefly addressed the issue of Fudan University, confirming that at the end of 2022, after the presentation of the plans, there could be a referendum on the issue, and on the Hungarian border closure, which he believes should be maintained for a long time, and the European Union should prepare for something similar.

MTI

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