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Gergely Gulyás, the Minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office, and Eszter Vitályos, government spokesperson, held the usual weekly government briefing on Thursday, presenting the results of the previous day’s cabinet meeting.
Talking about the most important decisions of yesterday, Gergely Gulyás said that the cabinet meeting discussed the proposal on the situation of pensioners. He announced that the government decided to extend the Rural Home Renovation Program and make it available to pensioners. “Up to a ceiling of six million forints (14,800 euros), the state will pay half of the renovation costs, while the remaining amount can be covered by a preferential loan subsidized by the state at 3 percent interest,” the politician detailed.
He pointed out that the so-called 13th month pension is under constant attack:
Brussels has obliged us to have a study carried out with the OECD, which suggests that it needs to be limited and reformed.”
He said the government refused to do so, “these proposals are not accepted.”
Photo: MTI/Bruzák Noémi
Speaking about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s upcoming meeting with German AfD leader Alice Weidel next week, Gergely Gulyás noted that the party has had many manifestations with which the Hungarian government does not identify in any way. However, if the candidate for chancellor of one of Germany’s parties with over 20 percent support asks the Hungarian prime minister for a meeting, Mr Orbán will give him the opportunity. In response to a journalist’s question, he said
in the short term, I see no possibility for the AfD to join the Patriots for Europe.”
Asked by Magyar Nemzet, he said that in recent years there have been several cases where something has been called a conspiracy theory, only to find that it has a basis in truth. He said that the European Commission has given money to NGOs that have undertaken to protest against the European Parliament or to take action against certain decisions.
The Minister added:
Every time the Democrat administration backed by the Soros network in Washington loses, many move their headquarters to Brussels. Now that subsidy programs in America have been stopped, even more people will be scrambling for money in Brussels.”
On the protests in Slovakia and Serbia, he stressed that these kinds of NGOs are present in Serbia and Slovakia, too. He recalled that Brussels has openly said it wants to see a different government here, i.e. it supports the opposition. The politician said he hoped that these organizations working for the opposition were aware that the political forces behind the Hungarian government were stable and could not be compared with the two neighboring states.
Via Magyarország Kormánya, Magyar Nemzet; Featured image via MTI/Bruzák Noémi