LMP launches billboard campaign for green energy and better education

Budapest, May 7 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party’s Ökopolisz Foundation has launched a billboard campaign to promote green energy and better education in the service of better informed citizens, Szilvia Lengyel, co-leader of the foundation said on Sunday.

The campaign dubbed “You decide on your future!” turns on three messages: “Good education instead of government propaganda”, “Green surfaces instead of concrete” and “Renewable energy instead of Paks 2”, the latter referring to the upgrade of the Paks nuclear power plant.

Education should aim to contribute to a knowledge-based society instead of training workers for work on assembly lines, the statement said. Policymaking should support sustainable, renewable and economically viable energy resources instead of dangerous nuclear energy. It should also advance the right to a healthy environment, LMP added.

Meanwhile, LMP board member Péter Ungár said in a statement on Sunday that it appeared the Paks project served as an excuse for ruling Fidesz to form a “new grand coalition” with the Socialists. He cited speculation that István Kocsis, who held influential posts during successive Socialist governments, is to work together with János Süli, the minister responsible for the Paks upgrade.