Jobbik demands Orban, Lazar reveal info about alleged theft of public assets

Budapest, October 7 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the government office chief, Janos Lazar, to present facts and evidence about “who is stealing public assets”.

According to press reports, Lazar on Tuesday told a parliamentary supervisory subcommittee, in connection with the planned sale of state-owned farmland, that nobody would want “farming on a few hundred thousand hectares only for the Socialist-affiliated management to steal everything when the Socialists are in government or the Fidesz-affiliated management to steal everything when Fidesz is in government.”

Jobbik deputy leader Istvan Apati told a press conference that it is a “unique gangster logic” to prevent stealing through robbery. When public utility assets were nationalised, the government argued that the state would be a good owner. But now that 380,000 hectares of farmland are to be sold off, the government maintains the opposite, he added.

Apati said it is time that Orban and Lazar come forward with actual figures, names and facts.

He also demanded that the sale of farmland should be stopped.