The candidate for prime minister of the left believes that it was appropriate to abolish the 13th monthly pension, and that the time of the Bajnai government was a productive year.
Reinstating the 13th monthly pension is just as irresponsible as cutting utilities, stated Péter Márki-Zay during a recent interview. The opposition's candidate for Prime Minister explained: the problem with these irresponsible steps, like the overhead reduction, is that they are very easy to promise, give and extremely difficult to cancel.
"The previous government failed in part by canceling, let's say, the 13th monthly pension. (…) We are not even talking about the elimination of utility cuts, because once the Orbán government has granted this to someone, it is very difficult to get out of it. But this also has an extremely harmful impact on environmental protection. Also from the point of view of justice," stated Márki-Zay at the joint studio discussion of Greenpeace and HVG, in which he discussed with Klára Dobrev.
On another occasion, Gyurcsány's man said: "They gave the field to the otherwise very talented Gordon Bajnai, a minority government, to fix what they messed up. (…) The Bajnai government managed the unsustainable situation, canceled the 13th monthly pension, started to put the public finances in order, and austerity measures were introduced." In her published volume entitled Olga Szeretemország – Conversation book with Péter Márki-Zay, the Prime Minister candidate Kálmán also explained that as an economist, she considers the measures introduced by the Bajnai government to be appropriate because, in her opinion, they had to be implemented anyway.
The full article in Magyar Hírlap .
