FITNESS CYCLE FOR GENERAL STAFF CHIEF

The Ministry of Defence has bought recently a fitness cycle worth HUF 370 000 for András Havril, chief of the general staff. Mr Havril said to Magyar Nemzet there was nothing special in the purchase as the Ministry of Defence regularly bought such sports equipments for different departments and offices where these were necessary to preserve health and staying power.

He also noted that the fitness cycle stood in the store-house because in his office there was no room for such a big equipment and he had no time to use it. According to a regulation in 2003 soldiers are required to undergo an annual endurance test (they are supposed to run a distance of 3200 m) but over 50 this can be exchanged for a walk of 6 km or for fitness cycling. Recently the Ministry has made a similar purchase: icecream machines have been bought for the soldiers for HUF 10 million, sunbeds for HUF 4.5 million and last year in Szolnok kennels were bought for HUF 17.5 million.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó