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9th October, 2025
Magyar would revive education and health ministries
Tisza would establish new ministries for education, environmental protection, and regional development, among others, if elected to govern, party leader Peter Magyar told ATV on Wednesday.
The party would return the administration of schools to local councils and would provide a bigger say to local leaders in the educational, social and construction areas.
Speaking in Bonyhad, Tolna county, as part of his tour of the country, Magyar said a ministry of healthcare and several other ministries which did not exist in the past 15 years would be created.
Referring to Sandor Pinter, he said “in our cabinet a retired policeman will not take care of education, social affairs, child protection, and police matters, but these will have separate ministries. (atv.hu; naphire.hu)
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9th October, 2025
Tisza Party might adopt euro
The Tisza party is seriously thinking of adopting the euro, the party’s economics expert Andras Karman said in an interview with 444 published on Wednesday.
Stating that Hungary would have more advantages from the euro than disadvantages, he said “In fact, personally I think that among the EU countries not using the euro, we would have the most to gain from adopting the euro.”
There are two reasons for this, Karman added: the Hungarian economy is very integrated, it is attached to the eurozone by many threads, while on the other hand the credibility of its monetary policy is very low, since inflation was never suppressed in a stable way. He said the introduction of the euro would lead to lower rates, lower inflation, and greater investment security.
Karman affirmed the party’s promise to reduce the VAT on healthy food items from 27%, to 5% which will lead to a drop in prices.
Asked how Tisza would finance this, he said partly by ending the over-pricing of public procurements and partly by introducing a property tax. (telex.hu; mfor.hu; index.hu; privatbankar.hu; 24.hu; 444.hu)
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9th October, 2025
Orban writes about secret pacts in letters sent to households
A letter signed by Viktor Orban delivered to all households that received the government’s latest national consultation questionnaire warns of parties preparing to raise taxes and colluding with Brussels.
No parties are named, but it is clear that he is referring to the Tisza party in the letter, and to the document leaked by the pro-government media as tax plans, which Tisza has since denied countless times.
The latest letter says that the EU wants to force Hungary to help finance the Ukrainian war by raising taxes of Hungarian families and businesses.
Orban alleges in his letter that some political parties have reached agreements with the EU behind the scenes. He further claims that these parties have concrete and detailed plans but they do not want to make them public before the 2026 elections.
Orban also warns in his letter that the Tisza Party could undo income tax cuts and the exemption of mothers and young people from having to pay income tax. (index.hu; hvg.hu)
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9th October, 2025
Inquiry into alleged Tisza app data leak
The National Data Protection and Information Freedom Authority has launched an official inquiry into the matter of the data leakage case of the Tisza app, its president Attila Peterfalvi told Magyar Nemzet on Wednesday.
Index reported on Monday that a severe data leakage occurred as the personal data of 18,000 users may have been leaked from the party’s app.
Index also alleged that a Ukrainian IT company, PettersonApps, may have taken part in developing the app.
The Tisza Party denies data leakage or that it has anything to do with the Ukrainian developer.
Website 444 has talked to several people affected whose real data were put on the Anon Paste page.
Peterfalvi said no more information will be released until the inquiry closes.
Peter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party, wrote on Wednesday that the Tisza Vilag app has more than 300,000 users, and that “the ridiculous attempt to discredit it” has resulted in tens of thousands of new downloads. (24.hu; magyarnemzet.hu)
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9th October, 2025
Balog diocese buys Balaton holiday resort from the state for Ft 1bn
The Duna Regional Calvinist Diocese has bought a holiday resort at Balatonboglar, on the south shore of Lake Balaton for Ft 1.1 billion.
The diocese led by bishop Zoltan Balog bought the 9,604 square metre property from the state. It is separated from the lake by only a narrow walk on the shore, HVG reports.
The government has transferred more than 270 properties from the state to various churches free of charge in the past 15 years.
Their overall value is estimated at more than Ft 80 billion.
In the 18 months since Balog was nearly deposed due to his involvement in the clemency scandal, his diocese has received properties worth billions of forints free of charge. (24.hu; hvg.hu; mfor.hu; 444.hu; nepszava.hu; klubradio.hu)
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