Hungary’s small conservative Democratic Forum has called on the Fiscal Council to put a price tag on parties’ election promises, the party’s deputy leader Karoly Herenyi told the press on Monday.
MDF advocates transparency in the campaign and suggests that the Fiscal Council – similarly to the practice seen in the Netherlands – should calculate the costs of each campaign promise, Herenyi said. In this way, the campaign may be prevented from turning into a “battlefield of populist promises”, he added.
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