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Orbán cabinet to ‘find solution’ to expiring measures, says minister
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The cabinet will convene on Wednesday to “resolve” problems arising from expiring measures issued under the state of emergency introduced due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told a press conference on Tuesday.
Since the opposition on Monday refused to debate extending special measures in an extraordinary session of parliament, this can be debated only next Tuesday at the earliest, Gulyás said. The government now “has to mitigate the damage caused by the opposition,” he said.
Among the measures expiring this Friday is the decision to close Hungary’s borders to vehicles arriving from certain countries, Gulyás said. The closure of universities and the ban for health-care workers, soldiers and government officials to leave Hungary also expires on Friday, he added. Meanwhile, the decision to suspend court trials and the authorisation of mayors to order the closure of kindergartens and nurseries expire on Monday, he added.
He said that going by the opposition’s “behaviour” in parliament on Monday, there was reason to believe that there was a push by the opposition to “spread lies” about the government’s epidemic response bill on the international stage.
Gulyás slammed as “falsehood” the claim that the government’s decision not to set a time limit for maintaining the state of emergency would lead to a delay in holding elections, noting that the timetable for holding general and local elections is regulated by the constitution.
It is up to the government to determine the duration of the state of emergency, Gulyás said, adding, at the same time, that the bill’s sponsors had proposed that parliament should be the one to decide how long it should be maintained for. This, he said, limited, rather than expanded, the powers of the cabinet.
When will the opposition political parties ‘wake up’ to reality ?
One of their major spokesmen – Ferenc Gyurcsany – has (yet again) demonstrated his TOTAL INCOMPETENCE as a politician through his speech to Parliament on Monday.
It would be thought that he had been ‘taught a lesson’ by Hungarian voters in the past but obviously his skin is thicker than that of a crocodile (which should be on his family crest !).
The Socialists’ nominee for Prime Minister in 2017 – Gergely Karacsony – now wants to run Budapest as a DICTATOR ! Heil Karacsony ??
‘Comrade” Anett Bosz has suggested that important decisions concerning government can be made ‘online’. Obviously she has NO IDEA about how Hungary’s democracy works.
Oh what a sorry mess.
The opposition political parties / members have had numerous chances to convince Hungarians that Fidesz and its allies should be ‘dumped’. Those efforts have failed miserably.
It is about time that the opposition politicians STOP SITTING on their ‘middle fingers’ and UNITE with the Hungarian Government at this time of national (and international) crisis.
Their behaviour to date has been ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.
If they don’t act in the national interest, then in all likelihood the Hungarian people will show THEIR middle fingers to these intransigent fools at the next election.