Péter Márki-Zay's poster campaign about utility reduction is a communication trick, Olivér Hartay, the colleague responsible for energy policy at Századvég, writes in a Facebook post. The left-wing prime ministerial candidate launched a poster campaign with the following slogan: "Orbán goes, utility cuts remain".
The message is the new stage of the absurd communication attempt in which Márki-Zay tries to make people believe that the elimination of the overhead reduction program and its replacement by another one would not mean the cancellation of the existing program. The essence of the utility reduction program is the officially fixed, low prices.
Péter Márki-Zay has said countless times that: he believes in market prices instead of official prices and that he does not consider low prices expedient/sustainable (sometimes he put it even more sharply than that). For example, in his debate with Klára Dobrev in October, he said that: "the increase in energy prices must be felt... if we cannot implement this in prices, then we will not encourage anyone to save energy". Or, in his weekly login on November 7, he put it like this: "there is a solution and it's not to freeze prices" and that "our overhead reduction will look completely different".
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Also, in almost every related speech, he says that he considers it a scam that when the market prices were lower than those set by the authorities, you had to pay more, and now that they are higher, you have to pay less.
It is quite clear that Márki-Zay would introduce market pricing instead of the current, low-level fixed official prices and would consider the price increase to be welcome, because it would force people to reduce their consumption. This would necessarily mean the cancellation of the current utility reduction program.
The candidate for Prime Minister of the left realized that the utility reduction program is popular, so he can lose voters by attacking it. However, he did not react to this by dropping his program, but by starting to communicate it as a new, even greater overhead reduction. In all his related statements in recent weeks, he calls it a lie that he would abolish the overhead reduction, and then denounces the same panels as before as "real overhead reduction" - opposed to overhead reduction.
In addition, he believes in the success of his new communication trick so much that he has now launched a poster campaign for it. It is shocking how a candidate for prime minister can look down on voters to such an extent, since the belief in the success of the communication trick assumes that, according to Márki-Zay, people:
they do not understand the logical basis that the new tariff rules necessarily mean the abolition of the old ones,
they don't know the difference between official and market pricing,
they will not realize that just because the utility reduction program is good for them, a price increase in the name of utility reduction will not be good for them.
Péter Márki-Zay's poster campaign about utility reduction is a communication trick, stated Olivér Hartay. He emphasized: the essence of the utility reduction program is the officially fixed, low prices, and it is quite clear that Márki-Zay would instead introduce market pricing, which would mean the cancellation of the current utility reduction.
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The Fidesz-KDNP governments bought back the strategic energy companies that had previously been abandoned by the communist-left-liberal side, which enabled a stable overhead reduction. As usual, the left would sell these companies to the multis at a lower price, but in exchange for a huge profit, if they were authorized to govern in the elections. Then nobody would really understand "market-based" bills, only that the prices would skyrocket again.
"Oh please, this is the market!" - Péter Márki-Zay Gyurcsány would say, while receiving the Cayman Islands mail over a coffee on the beach grass. "I wish they didn't choose us!"
Source and full article: Olivér Hartay/Facebook
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