LMP: Nuclear power plant expansion really about Fidesz graft

Budapest, January 9 (MTI) – The green LMP opposition party has repeated its call on the government to halt the Paks nuclear power plant expansion, claiming that the only real aim of the project is to pump cash into businesses backing the ruling Fidesz party.

The government will ruin the country in the next few decades “if it builds an expensive and needless nuclear power plant at the heavy cost of corruption,” LMP spokesman Jozsef Gal told a news conference on Saturday.

LMP has obtained a report on state-owned energy company MVM’s advertising costs, from which it can be deduced that energy policy criteria were not germane to the government’s “shady” decision to back the investment. Rather the opportunity for graft was the real motivation, Gal said. In response to the LMP spokesman’s statement, Fidesz said in a statement that Paks supplied the cheapest electricity. Expanding the plant will guarantee cheap and safe energy for Hungarian families over the long term.