Peter Magyar's MEPs Also Voted for Brussels Proposal to Abolish Utility Bill Cuts

In addition to war, migration and gender policy, Peter Magyar and the Tisza Party also sided with the Brussels elite on other key issues such as the attempt to abolish Hungary's utility bill cuts. In the final part of our series, we also show that Peter Magyar's support for the misguided EU sanctions poses a threat to the country's energy security, as well.

Peter Magyar, Tisza Party president and MEP and fellow Tisza Party MEP Gabriella Gerzsenyi at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on December 18, 2024 (Photo: MTVA/MTI/ Boglarka Bodnar)

Tisza MEPs vote for abolishing utility bill cuts

On October 1, another MEP of the Tisza Party, Eszter Lakos, voted in support of the European Parliament Energy Committee document calling for the abolition of Hungary's price reductions on residential utility bills.

On November 14, Tisza party chief Peter Magyar and his colleagues again voted in Brussels to do away with the cost cuts.

"It is outrageous that Peter Magyar and his fellow Tisza Party members have put their names to such a proposal. Ending the cuts would increase the utility bills of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian families by an unacceptable amount. For this reason, we, the Fidesz-KDNP MEPs, firmly rejected the resolution," the governing party group said in a statement. They explained that the European Parliament's resolution adopted in connection with the COP 29 climate change conference calls for the phasing out of household energy price subsidies, such as the Hungarian caps on residential electricity costs. "The fight against climate change is a priority for Fidesz-KDNP. However, this fight must be guided by common sense, not by panic and poison-green ideology divorced from reality. Neither farmers, nor businesses, nor families should have to exclusively bear the cost of the green transition," Fidesz-KDNP stressed.

Jeopardizing Hungary's energy security

Peter Magyar and company also supported the misguided Brussels sanctions policy, which has done more harm to Europe than to Russia over the last two and a half years.

The European Parliament resolution on sanctions against Russia brought on November 14, called on EU member states to ban imports of Russian oil, gas and nuclear products. Fidesz-KDNP MEPs voted against these proposals citing that they seriously threaten the energy security of Hungarian households and businesses. But the Tisza Party politicians again failed to defend Hungarian interests this time as well.