Bertalan Tóth, the deputy group leader of the party, said “oligarchs” associated with ruling Fidesz and reaped the rewards of lower prices. He demanded that those benefits should go to ordinary residents.

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said that the drop in global market prices of oil and gas should allow a reduction of a “spectacular” rate of up to 30% in domestic electricity and district heating prices in the footsteps of the government’s decreed utility fee cuts.

Csaba Molnár, deputy leader of DK, said the government’s scheme to reduce household bills was “a lie” and its effects on the public were minimal.

The Fidesz party said in reaction that whenever the left wing had the chance, far from cutting the cost of household energy, it actually raised it by three times. In a statement, Fidesz said that under the government of the Socialists, Hungarian families paid for Europe’s most expensive gas.

Fidesz insisted that the left wing had not changed. Today, too, it opposes the government’s scheme to cut household bills and fights for the interests of foreign service providers.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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