Socialists, Parbeszed lambast next year's budget

Hungary's recently adopted 2022 budget is a "fata morgana" designed to "benefit one percent" of the population, the opposition Socialist and Parbeszed parties told an online press conference on Wednesday. Imre Komjathi, deputy leader of the Socialist Party, called for immediate government assistance to low earners "rather than consultations on a wage hike", and insisted that "if Orban had meant it he would have found an opportunity to discuss it in the coordination council which the government scrapped in one of its first measures back in 2010".