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Women in Hungary Were Not Treated Right Over Past 15 Years, Says Magyar

• 3 Mar 2025 11:57 AM

The opposition Tisza party is holding its first women's conference called Women for the future, party leader Peter Magyar said in a statement on Friday, adding that "women had not been treated as they should have been in the past 15 years, at a time of wasted opportunities".

Magyar called on women to come to the party's root grass movement, the Tisza Islands, "and tell us their problems, and how and where we can help".

"The Orban regime is threatening vulnerable women the most," Magyar said.

The government has no female ministers and its ratio of female representatives and ministers is the lowest in the EU, he said.

Issues such as an actual way to close the gender pay gap, eliminate menstruation poverty, how to support women suffering from post-partum depression, among others, must be discussed, Magyar said.

The conference will feature three podium talks with public figures, lawyers, psychologists and other experts, including Kriszta Bodis, the head of the Van Helyed Foundation, soprano Andrea Rost, and Erzsebet Boros, the head of the public employees' trade union, he said.

Commenting on the statement in a video on Facebook, Alexandra Szentkiralyi, the head of Fidesz's Budapest chapter, said Magyar "has the nerve" to organise a women's conference, insisting that Magyar had psychologically and physically abused his then-wife, former justice minister Judit Varga.

Government spokeswoman Eszter Vitalyos, space research commissioner Orsolya Ferencz and other female politicians also featured in the video.


Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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