In an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, Magyar highlighted that firewood prices have tripled since 2010, while the state's social firewood budget, just 5 billion forints, has not increased since 2019. "Meanwhile, 20 billion was spent on propaganda," he insisted.

The Tisza government will also review the fourfold increase in system usage fees, Magyar added.

He said businessman Lorinc Meszaros "became five times richer in a decade than the British royal family in 400 years", while one million pensioners were living below the subsistence level, 400,000 children were in deep poverty and hundreds were freezing to death in their own homes.

Magyar: New media law, new media authority, new public media needed

All Hungarians deserve a public media that broadcasts reality, so a new media law, a new media authority and the development of professional conditions will be needed for the public media to really fulfil its function, the leader of the election-winning Tisza Party said in an interview with public radio on Wednesday.

Magyar said that the last time he had visited the public media was more than a year and a half ago, on Sept 26, 2024, and that it had taken the votes of more than 3.3 million people and a mandate unprecedented in the history of modern Hungarian democracy to have him back in.

He added that "a day or two since the regime change took place", and since the "state party suffered an unprecedented defeat, some people are trying to pretend that nothing has happened, even in this building, leaders and editors, and are trying to function as free media".

Magyar said this was not a desire for revenge, not a personal revenge, but the Hungarian people, Fidesz voters and Tisza voters alike, all Hungarians deserved a public media "that broadcasts reality".

"So we will need a little time for a new media law, a new media authority and the creation of professional conditions for the public media, the public media that operates with hundreds of billions of forints, to really fulfil its function," he said.

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