The government parties will put an end to the left's continuous billionaire trickery with the law amendment proposal submitted on Tuesday evening. The left party, which started on a single list in the elections and then formed six parliamentary factions, would cost the taxpayers HUF three billion more in this cycle, even though they received 800,000 fewer votes compared to 2018. According to the change, these three billion forints will be taken away, while the governing party representative groups will also hand over 2 billion and contribute these amounts to the overhead protection fund.
Máté Kocsis, Fidesz, and István Simicskó, leader of the KDNP faction, submitted to the parliament on Tuesday evening the proposal to amend the Parliament Act.
The change largely transforms faction financing, because based on the current regulations, the operation of the parliament would cost HUF 6 billion more in this cycle than in the previous one.
The ruling party's proposal puts an end to the trickery of the left, namely that they started on one list, but formed six factions in the parliament, exploiting the advantages of small parties.
Because each representative group has an operational, supply, salary and cafeteria budget. The trickery of the left is also unsustainable because while they lost 800,000 voters in the April 3 elections compared to 2018, they would cost the taxpayers HUF 3 billion more.
The amount of care per opposition representative was always higher, in the four years behind us, a representative of a government faction cost HUF 2.2 million per month, while a left-wing representative cost HUF 3.1 million. If the calculation did not change, then in this cycle a member of the ruling party would cost the taxpayers HUF 2.7 million, while an opposition member would cost HUF 4.5 million - that is, almost twice as much. According to the proponents of the amendment to the law, this is not right, it would generate a surplus of HUF 1.5 million per representative per month for the left, even though there were fewer of them.
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