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Opposition leader Magyar banned from Hungarian children’s homes, welcomed by crowds in “Fidesz’s capital”
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Péter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, said that the government had admitted that many children’s homes are operating under “unacceptable circumstances” by banning him from visiting such homes.
In a statement to MTI, Magyar said he had received a letter from Attila Fülöp, the state secretary for social affairs, letting him know that he had been banned from institutions providing care.
With that step, “the government has openly admitted that gravely traumatised children are living in unacceptable circumstances, and that there is a dire shortage of work force due to humiliatingly low wages,” Magyar said in the statement.
MEPs have the right to information pertaining to their work from state institutions, just as children have a fundamental right to protection and care for their welfare, Magyar said.
Fülop’s letter “is simply lies and fearmongering,” he said.
“You can’t ban an MEP from children’s homes, especially not in an email. A real ban must be made through a public administration decision, against which legal remedies are in place,” Magyar said.
He said the party will revamp the bathrooms of a children’s home in Miskolc, which he said was in a state “not fit for human use”. “We will do this instead of the government, which has been unable for years to allocate 5 million forints to reconstruct the mouldy, wet bathrooms,” he said.
Magyar should stop using children as pawns. It seems Magyar has no respect for women or children. No wonder FIDESZ is 12 points ahead of Magyar’s party, the majority of people reject him.