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Elections 2018 – Opposition parties promise big education spending increases
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Education has become a key issue ahead of the April 8 general election, and opposition parties are upping the ante on related spending.
The green opposition LMP’s prime ministerial candidate Bernadett Szél said on Thursday “the future lies in education” and promised to spend every fifth forint on education.
“The difference between ruling Fidesz and LMP is that the current ruling party steals every fifth forint, whereas LMP will recoup the stolen money and invest it in education,” she told a press conference.
She said Hungary’s Fidesz government had harmed education more than any other, reflected by the deterioration in Hungary’s PISA results.
Centralisation has proved to be failure, she added, referring to the government’s policy of taking over the key functions of running schools from the local authorities.