❌ Today, one in five Europeans cannot properly heat their homes, and more than a quarter have already struggled to pay their utility bills.
In Hungary, however, both indicators are the lowest in the European Union, thanks to the utility price cuts that the government has been defending for years. This also shows that utility price cuts provide real help to every Hungarian family.
👉 The TISZA party would immediately take this away upon coming to power, as is clearly visible in their economic package. Instead of cheap Russian energy, they would let in foreign multinationals, which would result in a drastic increase in our heating bills.
We cannot allow this! We will protect low utility costs for Hungarian families.
It was also reported today how European countries are doing in terms of people’s ability to pay their utility bills. From this perspective, Hungary is in the most favorable position in the entire European Union, as only 5% of people here said that paying utility bills is a problem for them. In other European countries, this figure is generally much higher—often in the double digits or even around 40%.
So this also shows that utility price cuts are a real help to Hungarian families, and it is also clear that abolishing them—as part of the TISZA party’s program—along with moving away from cheap, predictable Russian oil, would pose an extremely serious threat to Hungarian families.
In short, we are currently in the best position when it comes to people being able to pay their bills. Even if we did not end up at the very bottom, we would certainly fall into a very, very difficult situation—one that every Hungarian family would feel.
🟠 That is why Fidesz is the only safe choice.
🔴 1️⃣ “Statistical truth” twisted into a political lie
“In Hungary both indicators are the lowest in the EU… only 5% said utility bills are a problem.”
What’s the trick?
- Self-reported data (EU-SILC) is presented as if it were objective prosperity
What they leave out:
- cutting back on consumption (not heating, not using lights) is not well-being
- the reduced utility price is limited; above the cap, market prices apply
- because of low incomes, many people don’t complain — they simply go without
👉 This is “apparent success”: bills aren’t low because energy is affordable, but because energy isn’t being used.
🔴 2️⃣ False cause-and-effect: “utility price cuts = security”
“thanks to the utility price cuts”
❌ What they omit:
- inflation → loss of real income
- poor energy efficiency of the housing stock
- lack of targeted social support
- blocking of EU funds
👉 A single measure is presented as the source of everything good, while all other destructive factors are denied.
This is monocausal propaganda.
🔴 3️⃣ “They would immediately abolish it” – a non-existent decision presented as fact
“👉 TISZA would abolish it immediately”
❌ There is no:
- legislative proposal
- budget calculation
- date
- binding decision
👉 This is the “assumed future crime” technique.
They talk about it as if it were already decided, when it is not.
🔴 4️⃣ Russian energy = security / EU = danger
“cheap Russian energy”
“foreign multinationals”
This is a Cold War framing:
- Russian = predictable, friendly
- EU = expensive, foreign, exploitative
❌ What’s left out:
- price risk
- political dependency
- the real cost of long-term contracts
- lack of competition
👉 This is emotional geopolitics, not economic analysis.
🔴 5️⃣ “If not us, then catastrophe” – apocalyptic blackmail
“we would end up in a very, very bad situation”
“every Hungarian family would feel it”
This is classic fear stacking:
- utility bills
- family
- winter
- impoverishment
👉 No middle ground.
👉 No alternatives.
👉 No debate.
🔴 6️⃣ Circular self-justification
“That’s why Fidesz is the only safe choice”
The logic:
- We did it → therefore it’s good
- If others come → it will be bad
- Because it would be bad → we are the safe choice
This is a self-validating propaganda loop.
🧠 In summary – what is really happening?
This text is not about utility bills, but about:
- managing fear
- normalizing dependence on Russia
- demonizing the political opponent
- using statistics as a political weapon
And all of this without any concrete decision, calculation, or legal act behind it.