Coordination is the keyword in the description of different jobs in the Prime Minister’s Office but the activities expected and the scope of work are in darkness for the public. The government has almost twice as many political and titular state secretaries, commissioners in the status of a state secretary than the Orbán government had in 2002. No one knows actually what the political state secretaries do there: several high ranking officials deal with the problems of villages and towns and those of the regions (apart from the Ministry of the Interior), there are among them Sándor Nagy, István Kolber, Tamás Suchman, István Tukacs, László Toller, and Zsolt Érsek. Prof. Tamás Sárközy is a government commissioner responsible for the reform in public administration, his plan contains a remarkable reduction of such parallelisms but the reform is expected to be introduced only in 2007. At present the government has 35 political and titular state secretaries, there are three chief political advisors, and two government spokespersons. Since 2002 there have been nine government commissioners appointed, all remunerated as state secretaries. The Orbán cabinet had 25 political state secretaries in 2002.
Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó
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