Right Wing Guaranteeing Security Wins Domestic Political Race in December

Even in the final month of last year, the Tisza Party was unable to change its subordinate position, while the right wing further consolidated its leading position in the domestic political race, writes the Center for Fundamental Rights in its analysis.

The Center for Fundamental Rights recalls that the more than 600-page document would burden people with a total of around 1,300 billion forints in austerity measures annually. It includes plans for a progressive personal income tax, which would already impose a 7 percent tax increase on average wages. It would dismantle the currently expanding family tax reliefs, abolish child care allowance (GYED), and significantly increase the burdens on businesses. Social insurance would be transferred into private hands, meaning the state would step back from behind pensioners and users of health care services. As a result, pensions and, among other things, the financing of hospital treatments would be placed in the hands of market actors who, in times of crisis, could easily abandon Hungarian citizens, given that their primary concern is always profit. The planned measures fit neatly with the expectations Brussels sets out each year in its country report on Hungary, the analysis highlights.

 

Cover photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech at the anti-war rally organized by the Digital Civic Circles (DPK) in Szeged on December 20, 2025 (Photo: MTI/Prime Minister’s General Department of Communication/Zoltan Fischer)