Uncle Jenő Kaltenbach, Aunt Mari Vásárhelyi, pay close attention, now there is a text assignment!

"Orbán didn't have the strength to prevent it, but we had the perseverance and we did it," declares Klára Dobrev's latest personal feat as part of her entrance as shadow head of government: she voted with five hundred and fifths of the draft European minimum wage regulation in the European Parliament, which was a draft in 2017 (the two years before the politician entered Brussels) is an integral part of the strategy adopted.

What a woman, this is what the Hungarian people need! – the candidate of sociology congratulates the politician,

he is a senior scientific associate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as a political and legal scientist with the Pro Universitate award, as well as a journalist with a degree in economics and sociology.

the first eight well-known supporters is 71.75 years - but of course you can still feel the momentary vibe of the average, that's not the problem. But exactly what sentences do members of our so-called top intellectuals put their partisan name next to. Because when a moderately educated sectarian dean avoids this kind of dobrev saying, it is completely understandable; however, it is somewhat surprising when the intellectual elite of our country has to be guided by a wandering humanist like me in the world of law and numbers.

But if it's like that, let's get over it.

Uncle Jenő, Aunt Mari, pay close attention, there is a text task to start with! The overwhelming majority of the European Parliament, 505 representatives to be exact, vote yes for a report, including the four politicians of the DK, as well as (well, he did not reveal all the elements of reality) the 11 representatives of the Fidesz-KDNP present. Is the claim that Klára Dobrev overcame the evil Fidesz's plots and conspiracies, and at the cost of heroic efforts, passed the report on the draft directive on the minimum wage?

did he vote with a casual finger movement in the same way as Balázs Hidvéghi or Enikő Győri?

Perhaps we can agree that not quite.

It is also logical: why would the ruling party have a problem with the fact that an "adequate" minimum wage may have to be introduced within a few years, for example (if possible) at the level of 50 percent of the gross average wage, if we have been moving towards this point so far. The very first Orbán government increased the minimum wage from 28.8 percent of the average wage to 40.8 percent between 1998 and 2002 - then came Klára Dobrev as Péter Medgyessy's chief of staff and as the wife of Ferenc Gyurcsány, and somehow, by the beginning of 2008, the minimum wage was only it was 34.7 percent of the already slim average salary.

From there we climbed back to around 42-43 percent,

so that the ratio now stands at 40 percent, even after the covid-quarantine period. That is, in the case of the plain minimum wage, because the guaranteed minimum wage is currently 52 percent of the average wage and 64.5 percent of the median wage, so it loosely meets the criteria to be introduced at some point.

But those who feel the power within themselves can even calculate at this point that if we bring the minimum wage closer to the average Hungarian wage in Hungary (increasing 500 euros) and in Belgium to the Belgian one (increasing 1,842 euros), how nominally we will get closer to each other, and how much not. In a video, Klára Dobrev herself explained that the new regulation would mean an extra HUF 30,000 (this year, by the way, the minimum wage increased by HUF 32,600 in one step, without EU regulation) - in comparison, she managed to communicate this to the people of the country at the plenary session of the European Parliament and (thanks to 22 interpreters) with European public opinion that

with this historic vote, they will now "against Orbán ensure that "Hungarians also have a fair European wage".

Dr. Jenő Kaltenbach and dr. According to Mária Vásárhelyi, would it be considered a fair European wage if the minimum wage were 230,000 instead of 200,000? Just because if not, then why are they groping for the "shadow prime minister" who is campaigning for exactly that?

It's true, Mária Vásárhelyi already answered this: "I'm up to my neck in self-fulfilling but never justified self-excusing and scapegoating" (the comma was surely forgotten by MTA's chief employee in his indignation). I bow to the argument: in this case, it is really justified to support the MEP with all his might, who reflexively and without any basis in his speech in Strasbourg regarding the regulation of the European minimum wage.

Francesca Rivafinoli / Mandiner

Featured image: MH/Péter Papajcsik