Socialists Greet “Hunger Marchers” At Parliament In Budapest
- 15 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
"The hunger marchers who left Miskolc last Monday arrived outside Parliament yesterday afternoon after braving the cold weather to cover some 200 kilometres to promote their request for work and bread. Almost the entire Socialist caucus as well as two LMP MPs who had marched with them were on hand on to welcome the group.
In Parliament Nándor Gúr, chairman of the Socialist Party’s Borsod county chapter, placed Ft 47,000 before state secretary Zoltán Cséfalvay, as Economy Minister György Matolcsy had said earlier that one can live off that amount.
Cséfalvay pushed the money aside and said wages have grown in real terms and so has employment.
Socialist MP István Nyakó asked employment state secretary Sándor Czomba when decent jobs and wages will prevail in Hungary.
Czomba answered that employment has grown and people see that the government’s 18-month performance is not to blame for the state of the country."
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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