Fidesz proposes cutting state funding for parlt groups

The ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties are submitting a bill on cutting state funding by 3 billion forints (EUR 7.5m) for opposition parliamentary party groups and by 2 billion forints for their own groups during the current parliamentary cycle, the group leader of Fidesz said on Tuesday. Through the "trickery of sending six party groups to parliament", the left-wing parties would cost much more in the forthcoming cycle than they did in the previous one, even though they lost 800,000 voters and ten seats after the April 3 general election, Mate Kocsis said.