Finance Minister Péter Oszkó promised growth in the second half of 2010 in a general debate on the 2010 budget bill in Parliament yesterday. “Standard & Poor’s, one of the main credit rating agencies, has improved its rating for Hungary, which is exceptional in Europe at the moment,” he said.
“We Hungarians, let us not be misled! This is the creditors’ budget,” Fidesz MP Mihály Babák said. Fidesz MP Lajos Kósa added that “the Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai is a liquidation commissioner and the budget is an insolvency case, in which even the basic figures are unrealistic.”
Fidesz MPs asserted that public transport, welfare, local governments, health care and education will be the losers in the 2010 budget.
“The situation has not changed. The government files its budget bill and the Fidesz parrot commando starts work; from calls to abandon (the bill), to envisioning varied and unbounded catastrophes,” Socialist caucus deputy leader István Göndör said.
“Bajnai is doing what he promised. This budget is a must,” Free Democrat caucus leader János Kóka said.
