© EPA/FABIO CIMAGLIA The aggregate sum of the allowances could amount to nearly 2.8 million euros.
The administration of Peter Magyar will donate severance monies from Viktor Orban’s previous Hungarian cabinet to a Ukrainian children’s home, the recently inaugurated prime minister stated, as per TVP reports.
Following the transition of authority, which, according to Magyar, occurred amidst a “less than ideal” environment, the new governmental leader declared the initiation of a probe into the prior administration’s actions.
Specifically, Magyar blamed Orbán and affiliates of his Fidesz political faction for plunging the nation into indebtedness. He alleges that while national debt has surged to 75% of the gross domestic product and inflation topped out at 26% during its peak in 2023, influential figures garnered scores of billions of forints through public contracts.
Under Hungarian statute, ministers and their assistants are due entitlements commensurate to their tenure after the conclusion of their mandate.
Magyar pointed out that for ministers, the collective value of these entitlements totaled 350 million forints (970,000 euros), while the overall sum, encompassing disbursements to vice ministers, neared 1 billion forints (2.8 million euros).
“I implore those ministers who devastated our country and drove it into debt to forgo even considering acceptance of this money. Considering the state they relegated the nation to, the bare minimum they could do is to abstain from collecting tens of millions of forints in recompense,” Magyar asserted.
The Ukrainian institution for children slated to benefit from these contributions is situated just beyond Hungary's eastern boundary. Following the formal handover of ministerial portfolios on Thursday, Magyar verified that the outgoing leadership sanctioned the measure.
As a point to remember, on the 14th of May, Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, rescinded the state of emergency enforced by Viktor Orban, originally invoked citing “the situation in Ukraine.”