Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz party has called on the government, its agencies and state-run companies to stop advertising their activities or promoting their achievements during an election campaign, Fidesz official Zsolt Nyitrai told reporters on Sunday.
Fidesz also wants to make campaign financing more transparent, as well as limiting the campaign period to 30 days and the campaign budget for each political party to 100 million forints (EUR 347,000), he said.
Nyitrai called on the minority Socialist government, the National Development Agency (NFU) and the central bank to stop financing what he said amounted to a political party campaign ahead of the European Parliamentary elections.
For an example, Nyitrai noted that the NFU promoted its efforts to protect jobs and its “great utilisation of European Union funds”.
The EP elections in Hungary are scheduled for June 7.
