LMP: 4 million people in the country living below the subsistence level

Budapest, December 30 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party on Wednesday said that if it had been in power in 2015, people’s standards of living would have been directly proportional to how hard they had worked.

Spokesman Jozsef Gal said at a press conference that the party’s focus in 2015 was mainly on the eradication of worker poverty, as there are 4 million people in the country living below the subsistence level.

Gal noted his party’s budget proposal which he said would have created jobs, ensured higher wages and stable growth without forcing the government to rely on external funding. The proposal represented a 21st-century economy contrary to the austerity measures of the ruling Fidesz party, he said. Gal noted that LMP had proposed the reintroduction of a progressive tax system which would have raised the income of minimum wage earners by 21,000 forints (EUR 67) and that of average earners by 38,000 forints.