Some stretches of motorway, such as the bridges spanning the Danube and a section that runs to Liszt Ferenc International Airport from central Budapest, may be used free of charge.

Families with four or more children, as well as the physically disabled, will be eligible for compensation for purchasing the e-stickers.

The government also decided to grant motorists a two-month grace period for an administrative fee motorists must pay for motorway use before purchasing a county e-sticker during.

The radical nationalist Jobbik party said that levying a toll on bypasses had been “totally illconsidered”, and it called for the move to be reversed.

The Socialist Party said it was keeping to a plan to hold a partial road block on Jan. 30. József Tóbiás, the party’s leader, insisted that the government had succeeded in passing a single decision: it has made roads that became part of the toll system on Jan. 1 free of charge.

Green party LMP said that it continued to regard as unacceptable the government’s handling of the introduction of the road fee, which it called superficial and conducted without professional consultations.

Bernadett Szél, the party’s co-leader, said it was regrettable that the government had failed to draw the conclusion that it should ditch the measure altogether and apologise. Instead it was standing by its flawed policy, she added.

The Együtt (Together) party called for the previous state of affairs to be restored in their entirety.

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