250 people got together in front of the building of Hungarian National Asset Management Inc. (HNAM). Demeter Csaba, president of HUNALPA, said that the state enterprise do not care about their employees but they keep putting the blame on others. Thus these protesters demand their salary to be paid by solving this issue.

He emphasised that wage guarantee fund does not cover every cost and claimed to be protesting until they have received their missing money. After giving his speech he handed over a petition to of the employees of HNAM. This petition includes their demand of being paid and the government admitting to having had a major role in ruining MALÉV.

Protestors then went to the Ministry of National Development to hand over their petition again. Some of the protestors wore the dresses of flight attendants and pilots of MALÉV. The organisers distributed blue flags displaying the logo of MALÉV on the one side and question marks and exclamation marks in the Hungarian tricolour on the other side.

Ministry of National Development answered the petition in a press release claiming that the company has lost all its assets and as a result of selling their valuables there was a significant drop in the value of the company.

The ministry also emphasised that they are not able to influence the process of paying. MALÉV ceased working in 3 February in 2012 after 66 years of operation.

Source: ORIGO

Words by Keszthelyi Christian for XpatLoop.com

MTI Photo: Bea Kallos