In his New Year’s speech, Peter Magyar spent several minutes criticizing the Hungarian government’s economic policy. Among other things, the leader of the opposition Tisza Party claimed that Viktor Orban has turned Hungary into the EU’s poorest and most corrupt country.
It didn't take long for experts to set Magyar straight, as the Mandiner portal pointed out. Irish economist Philip Pilkington took to social media platform X, writing
the opposition in Hungary deploys demoralization propaganda to talk down Hungary,
According to Pilkington, contrary to Peter Magyar’s arguments, Hungary’s per capita GDP based on purchasing power parity is 46,8 thousand US dollars, which is significantly higher than that of Greece at 42 thousand US dollars and above the regional average.
Demoralization politics is ugly,
remarked the senior researcher at the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs.
