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New EV Battery Plant to Make Debrecen 'Impossible to Live in', Claims Opposition Party in Hungary

• 17 Feb 2023 10:31 AM
• Hungary Matters

The opposition Mi Hazánk party has pledged to take “firm” action to prevent the planned construction of a battery plant outside Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, adding that the project would make the city “impossible to live in”.

Mi Hazánk deputy leader István Apáti said if the project were to be completed, the city would not have enough drinking water in a few years and property prices would plummet, and “job seekers from the third, fourth worlds would flood the city”.

More about Mi Hazánk

Our Homeland Movement (Mi Hazánk Mozgalom, MHM) is a Hungarian far-right political party founded by Ásotthalom mayor and former Jobbik Vice-President László Toroczkai and other Jobbik dissidents that left the organization after the party's leadership moved away from its radical beginnings.

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