Main opposition Fidesz party chairman Viktor Orban will attend the National Summit initiated by the prime minister and scheduled for Saturday, Orban himself announced on all-news television channel Hir TV.
He also called Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany’s 12-point crisis-management programme a “gigantic belt-tightening package” that the opposition had to unite to oppose.
“Everyone who was invited will be attending, and I was invited,” said Orban. He called it a rare occasion but said that Hungary was in serious jeopardy – not from the financial crisis but from the government’s “belt-tightening package.” The government, he said, has chosen the worst possible response to the financial crisis. It wants to freeze wages and, of course, pensions, and to postpone tax cuts. This will weaken, not strengthen the country, he said.
