Századvég mapped the similarities between Márki-Zay's "crisis management" proposals and the vision of the makers of socialist politics before 2010 and their reactions to socio-economic challenges. As it turned out, the statements of the left-wing candidate for prime minister recall the socialist world before 2010, according to the analysis sent to Magyar Hírlap by Századvég.

The candidate for prime minister of the left, Péter Márki-Zay, suggested that a better solution to rising fuel prices - instead of an official fixing of the upper limit of 480 forints - would be if people bought smaller or hybrid vehicles, or if several people went to work together instead of individually, reminds the Századvég, adding: the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely suggested that "less water should be used, less electricity should be used, less gas should be used" as an alternative to reducing utilities, and he called it nonsense that world market prices "can be stopped at the border".

With regard to the statements in question, Századvég mapped the similarities between Márki-Zay's "crisis management" proposals and the vision of the makers of socialist policy before 2010, as well as their reactions to socio-economic challenges, and found that the left had previously been on the side of austerity stood, so the mentioned suggestions of the left-wing prime minister candidate are not surprising from the point of view that the response of the domestic left-liberal forces to emerging crisis situations has traditionally been to increase the burdens on people and businesses. Among other things

  • Between 2002 and 2010, leftist governments raised taxes more than 40 times,
  • Ferenc Gyurcsány abolished the family tax allowance for families with one and two children, and reduced it by 60 percent for families with three children.
  • In 2007 and 2008, more than 14,000 teachers were dismissed, more than 100 schools were closed, 748 schools were merged into other institutions, leaving a total of 1,000 settlements without a local school.
  • the higher education tuition fee, the daily hospital fee and the visiting fee were introduced, which were abolished in the 2008 referendum,
  • the Schöpf-Merei Ágost Hospital and Maternal Protection Center, the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI) and the Svábhegy State Children's Hospital were closed, and St. Margaret's Hospital, Buda Children's Hospital and St. John's Hospital were merged and downsized,
  • public sector wages were frozen, the 13th month wage was abolished,
  • finally, the pension adjustment of 2009 and 2010 was withdrawn and the 13th monthly pension was abolished.

Based on this, Századvég established that Péter Márki-Zay follows a failed socialist model.

"However, the indifference of the left-liberal bloc that reigned before 2010 towards the everyday problems of people and economic actors was not only embodied in the implementation of the mentioned austerity measures, but also - similar to Márki-Zay's current manifestations - in the communication of left-wing politicians," highlights Századvég, adding : Ferenc Gyurcsány in 2006 at the meeting of the National Interest Conciliation Council - criticizing the employers - stated: "You can leave Hungary! You can leave us here, please! Here we go! You can go!” .

In the same year, János Kóka, the former economy minister of the Gyurcsány government, responded to the fact that the employees of the ministry he led protested against the layoffs by saying that "the frogs are not asked about draining the swamp" . Also, regarding the role of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kóka believed that " those areas of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that do not directly serve competitiveness should be razed to the ground, because they only produce dusty documents" . It is also worth remembering that, in order to conceal the true economic situation of our country, János Veres, former Minister of Finance of Gyurcsány, before the 2006 parliamentary elections, forbade his subordinates to make more accurate calculations of the development of the budget process, because in his opinion it was a "political matter " would have been, because " Hungary is such a country"" - Századvég lists the examples.

"So it is clearly visible that Péter Márki-Zay has completely identified with the direction the left has followed for decades both in terms of his proposals - in the framework of which he would burden people and businesses with new and new burdens - and his political style. At the same time, it is important to emphasize that Hungarian voters have said no to the return of the failed socialist policy in three consecutive parliamentary elections since 2010," states Századvég's analysis.

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