The government has decided to extend the utility reduction to state-owned and municipal-owned apartment buildings that do not qualify as condominiums, said Szilárd Németh, the government commissioner responsible for maintaining the utility reduction, at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.

With the decision, the government will help nearly two thousand families, of which 1,400 live in rented apartments in Budapest, and 532 families live in state-owned properties managed by the Hungarian Defense Forces in Nagytarcsa, Debrecen and Nagyoroszi outside the capital, he explained.

Zsolt Láng, the government commissioner responsible for the complex development of the economic development zone in Central Hungary, added that the relevant government decree will be published on Monday evening, in which the regulations will be introduced retroactively from the first of August. He indicated: when the affected houses sign off on their operating principle, it will be possible to prepare the settlement retroactively.

Zsolt Láng said: while György Balla, the ministerial commissioner responsible for coordinating the strategic consultations necessary due to the rise in energy prices, negotiated with the rural municipalities on the issues concerning utilities, he himself negotiated with the Budapest municipalities, including the mayor, on the subject. During the conversations, it was revealed that the VIII., IX., XIII. and XIV. district, there are rental apartments owned by the state and local governments, where there are no separate meters, so the families living there do not pay a price that corresponds to residential consumption.

At the same time, the government made a very quick decision and extended utility protection to these families as well, since the goal of the cabinet is to protect all Hungarian families from runaway inflationary utility prices, he emphasized. In response to a question, he stated that such a problem has not yet occurred on the part of rural municipalities, but if it does, this decree will apply to them as well.

Zsolt Láng voiced his conviction: in this situation, dialogue and cooperation are needed, "not tension, banter and the continuous repetition of various party political self-goals".

Szilárd Németh mentioned an "exception" in this regard: he accused Krisztina Baranyi of the IX. the mayor of the district that he was looking "not for a solution, but for trouble" in their discussion about the case.

According to the government commissioner responsible for maintaining utility reduction, an incredibly large energy crisis has arisen throughout Europe due to the brutal and senseless Brussels sanctions - with which they wanted to punish Russia. The Hungarian government has decided to maintain the utility reduction in a unique way throughout Europe, and with this every Hungarian family can continue to save HUF 181,000 per month, he emphasized.

He drew attention to the fact that the government also paid attention to special life situations different from the general ones during the protection of utility reduction, thus providing a special discount to large families, apartment buildings and people living in multi-generational family houses. These measures affect 65,000 families. He added that nearly 10,000 people living with electric medical aids also received a special electricity discount.

MTI