Tisza Party Bent on Implementing Harsest Austerity Package of Past Decades

The Tisza Party would cut Hungarian families’ monthly income by tens of thousands of forints by abolishing energy price subsidies and tax reliefs, and by introducing a two-tier income tax regime. According to MEP Csaba Domotor, the real stake of the election is whether Hungarians’ money will continue to remain in Hungary.

Over the past fifteen years, the government has used the majority of the roughly 15,000 billion forints collected from special taxes to finance utility cost reductions and maintain energy price subsidies. Thanks to this,

Hungary has some of the lowest electricity and gas prices in Europe,

Csaba Domotor said, adding that “this is what is at stake in the election.”

The MEP stressed that the stake of the election is whether Hungary will continue to have a government capable of keeping the most important decisions about the future in Hungarian hands.

He noted that the importance of the Hungary's election goes beyond the country itself. In international politics, everyone has lined up who wants a “bowing and obedient” government in Hungary, one that never says no, and that would jump into the well even before being asked. Such a government would not oppose plans related to war, enlargement, or migration, or any other proposals harmful to Hungary.

As he put it, everything is being used to achieve this:

we have already seen smear reports and the withholding of EU funds. No, on top of these, physical threats have appeared, online censorship is being introduced, and we are witnessing an unprecedented scale of intelligence operations.

They are wiretapping the foreign minister, attempting to infiltrate parties, and launching widespread disinformation campaigns with the involvement of foreign-funded media outlets and activist groups, he said.

The MEP stressed that the Fidesz–KDNP will not respond using the same tools or threatening tone, but rather with votes on April 12. That is when the response of the “silent majority” will arrive—the loudest and most fitting response from those who do not want others deciding Hungary’s future.

Csaba Domotor also recalled an editorial published more than a year ago by EUobserver, which argued that all tools are justified against Slovakia and Hungary for opposing war policies. The article listed steps to pressure the two countries, including the use of intelligence tools.

It is clear that intelligence services seeking a change of government are intensifying their activities 

in order to install a government that would not stand in the way of plans that do not serve Hungary’s interests, the politician said.

Cover photo: Manfred Weber, president of the European People's Party, and Peter Magyar, leader of the Tisza Party (Photo: Miklos Teknos)

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