LMP: Drop in wages 'sign of Fidesz govt's failed crisis management'

Real wages have started to drop in Hungary for the first time in 12 months which "goes to show that the Fidesz-led government has failed in its pandemic-related crisis management efforts", the co-leader of opposition LMP said on Friday. "While gross average wages have increased by an annual 3.5 percent, inflation has risen to 5 percent over the past 12 months," Mate Kanasz-Nagy told an online press conference. He noted that the gross wage increase also included a one-off payment of 500,000 forints (EUR 1,435) to health-care workers.