So far nearly 20 billion taxpayer forints (EUR 64m) has been spent on building the prime minister’s “luxury residence” in the castle, Budapest DK politician Erzsébet Gy Németh said.

At the same time, general conditions in the country are deteriorating, including reports about the lack of hot meals in a Hungarian hospital and 24 planned operations at the Heim Pál Children’s Hospital in Budapest postponed because of a shortage of doctors, she added.

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