The chairman of Fidesz added that the 2009 budget violates the law, since a budget has legal preconditions: it has to be transparent and should contain actual data. If a budget today expects economic growth and higher income for municipalities, than it does not face reality.
The present struggling government is hopelessly incompetent to do its job. The chairman of Fidesz said today’s situation more and more reminded him of the time of the regime-change. The same people who were in power 20 years ago are still there, the crisis situation is the same and again there is a threat of state bankruptcy. When describing the situation 20 years ago, Fidesz said of those who were in power:  ‘to govern they can’t, to face the electorate they won’t.’ This sentence is still valid in 2008.

While in Western Europe millions of families can live off their family business, in Hungary this is impossible. If a family decided to size up every obstacle and prepare a quick business plan, they would immediately realize that it’s not worth starting up, because it’s hopeless. The main problem today is that entrepreneurial Hungarians do not have economic freedom. In economic sense Hungarian families are tied up. The lack of economic freedom makes Hungary unable to survive or even get out of this financial crisis renewed. The country is languishing in an economic prison, therefore it is unable to use opportunities provided by European Union.

The present Hungarian government has no economic, just financial policy. The latter only needs numbers and formulas, but no thoughts, fresh ideas or an awareness of reality. One just has to dive into others’ pockets; even a pickpocket knows how to do this. He knows that if he picks someone else’s pocket, then he will have more money. This sums up the socialist crisis management of today.

Viktor Orbán emphasized that not only does Fidesz have financial policy, but an economic one as well. The essence of our policy is an agreement between those who work and those who live on benefits. Long lasting security and welfare can only be created through work and economic growth.

While in 1989 we had to fight for political freedom, today we have to fight for economic freedom. Hungary is capable of much more than it can show off in the prison of socialist economic policy. “I can assure you, that we could lead this country and manage the crisis in a different way to the present government.” – said Viktor Orbán, adding that the Hungarian economy should be liberated, but in order to achieve this political change is needed.


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