Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai expressed thanks to Free Democrat chairman Gábor Fodor for his party’s support when the two politicians met in Parliament on Tuesday.
Fodor described his party’s decision to back the crisis-management cabinet as “tough and sensible, but the right one, as it has done more in the last month than the minority government managed in the previous year, as Hungarian economic indices are improving and the forint is strengthening. Gordon Bajnai is no Ferenc Gyurcsány,” he asserted.
Fodor said his party “continues to urge the cabinet not to soften its platform, either due to elections or political disputes”.
Fodor said the cabinet should work out an economic-stimulation platform, while remembering the social crisis, adopting an efficient policy to combat “Gypsy ghettos” and re-assigning EU funds for Roma job-creation schemes. He added that his party would like to hold more consultations on a property tax because the liberals “can only approve it as a single element” of a generally fairer tax system”.
Bajnai said “the Roma cause is fundamental, because if the nation cannot integrate Roma to a far greater extent, society could drift onto a rocky path.”
