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“Everything Is Fine,” Says Palóc André on Behalf of the Hungarian Ministry for National Economy

Palóc André, spokesperson of the Hungarian Ministry for National Economy, delivered a presentation that followed the usual propaganda script: repeat it, reinforce it, and insist that everything is perfectly fine.

The message is familiar and relentlessly repeated: “Nothing is wrong. You are actually better off.”
It works the same way as the chip presentation, where people are told that the cheaper option is better for them, even when their own experience tells them otherwise.

Instead of confronting reality, the narrative is carefully packaged and endlessly recycled. Lower consumption is rebranded as a smart, conscious choice. Financial pressure is reframed as responsible saving. Decline is sold as success — as long as it is repeated often enough.

This is not analysis.
It is conditioning.

When everyday reality contradicts the message, the response is not correction but repetition: say it again, say it louder, say it with charts and averages, until people are expected to doubt their own lived experience.

Just like with the chips:
you’re told the cheaper one is better for you —
and if you disagree, you’re told you simply don’t understand.

That is not communication.
That is propaganda.

Lately there have been these comparisons claiming that our consumption is, say, lower than that of others—I don’t know whom exactly. What they fail to mention alongside this is that the savings rate, relative to income, is among the highest in the EU. What does this mean? It means that consumption is also expanding, but people are currently rebuilding their savings. And in fact, when measured relative to income, their savings are not doing that badly either. Again, I’m not claiming that everyone is wealthy or that everything is fine, but it is certainly true that we have managed to improve the real value of people’s savings on average.

Takács Péter, Hungary’s State Secretary for Health, Tells an Opposition Politician to “Get the Hell Out of Hospitals”

On Tuesday, Péter Magyar, president of the TISZA Part, visited the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital in Budapest, where he recorded videos documenting infrastructure problems. According to his footage, the elevator functioned erratically, and while toilet paper was available, there was no disinfectant or paper towels in the restrooms.

The videos triggered an aggressive response from Péter Takács, Hungary’s State Secretary for Health. In a Facebook video, Takács addressed Magyar with the words:
“Listen here, you shameless nobody!”

He accused Magyar of being mentally unstable due to “continuous failures,” claimed he had “broken into” a hospital facility, allegedly pushed aside a security guard, and filmed inside a building where psychiatric patients are treated.

Takács ended his message with:
“Get the hell out of hospitals!”

Magyar Péter denied the accusations in a statement to RTL News, saying no guards were pushed aside and that security personnel simply followed them while also filming.

RTL also contacted the hospital. The response came from the Ministry of Interior, which claimed that Magyar Péter “lied chaotically,” that the videos do not reflect the real operation of the facility, and that hospital operations were “undisturbed.”

(0:00) Péter Magyar’s shamelessness has once again reached a new level.
(0:04) After the so-called child-protection protest ended in complete disinterest.
(0:10) Let’s be honest: in Budapest, getting one or two thousand people out onto the streets is not exactly a big achievement.
(0:16) And yet he managed to organize one of the lowest-attendance demonstrations in Budapest’s history.
(0:22) So from here as well, my heartfelt congratulations to you, Péter.
(0:24) Driven by frustration and anger, he has once again attacked hospitals.

(0:30) My colleagues have just informed me that this political fortune-hunter
(0:34) broke into one of the facilities of the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital this afternoon,
(0:39) into a building where psychiatric patients are also treated.
(0:42) Pushing aside the security guard who tried to warn him,
(0:46) with his face distorted by rage, he filmed everything in order to create another scandal.

(0:49) Listen here, you shameless nobody.
(0:52) As a lawyer, you should know perfectly well that health data enjoy special legal protection,
(0:58) and among them, the personal rights of people living with mental and psychiatric illnesses are especially protected.
(1:04) Your nervous system must certainly be worn down by your constant failures.
(1:08) But I suggest that you do not take out your frustration on hospitals, not on patients,
(1:12) and certainly not on psychiatric patients.

(1:15) Get the hell out of hospitals.

1.6 Million Is Not “Hungary” — The Numbers Tell a Different Story

When the Hungarian government claims that “1.6 million people have spoken”, keep this number in mind:

👉 Number of people over the age of 20 in Hungary: 7,677,012
(Official data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/hu/nep0003.html

That means the often-cited 1.6 million respondents represent:

  • less than 21% of the adult population,
  • not a majority,
  • not “Hungary”,
  • but at most a self-selected, politically targeted group.

And this is only about the raw numbers.

🔻 The deeper problem goes beyond statistics:

  • no transparency about how the questionnaires were distributed,
  • no independent verification,
  • no public data on duplicates, pressure, or manipulation,
  • no insight into how questions were framed,
  • and no access to the actual content of the responses.

So when officials say
“this is what Hungarians want” or
“we represent Hungary”,

what they are really doing is:
➡️ presenting an unverifiable, government-controlled data collection as if it were a democratic mandate.

That is not democracy.
It is political messaging disguised as public consent.

Hungary’s Public Media Claims Balance. Reality Says: NO.

Hungary’s public media claims it guarantees balanced, independent, and credible election coverage.

That is the official statement.

Reality:
NO.

Just to be absolutely clear:
NO.

So let there be no misunderstanding — neither domestically nor internationally:
NO.

In Hungarian:
NEM.

In Russian (just so it’s clear in the language Hungarian state media also understands):
НЕТ.

A Fictional “Austerity Plan” Used to Scare the Public


According to claims circulating in pro-government media, a 600-page document allegedly linked to Péter Magyar’s party would take 7,250 billion HUF from citizens and businesses under a future TISZA government.

There is just one problem: this document does not exist.

Despite this, a group called “Free Hungarians Against Austerity”—created by the government-aligned Center for Fundamental Rights—has launched a campaign warning about the “dangers” of these supposed austerity measures.

At the group’s founding event, Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center, claimed that the alleged TISZA “left-wing austerity package” reflects Brussels’ expectations and cynically added that the money would be “flushed down Ukrainian gold toilets.”

This is not policy analysis.
This is fear-mongering based on a fabricated document, designed to mislead the public, stir resentment, and divert attention from real issues.

Repeating a lie does not make it true—especially when no one can produce the document it is based on.

According to a 600-page document attributed to Péter Magyar’s party, a future TISZA government would take approximately 7,250 billion forints from citizens and businesses.

The “Free Hungarians Against Austerity” working group—created by the Center for Fundamental Rights—has warned about the dangers of these alleged austerity measures.

At the group’s founding event, Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center, stated that the left-wing austerity package attributed to TISZA reflects Brussels’ expectations, adding that the money would be “flushed down Ukrainian gold toilets.”

Orbán Claims Putin Promised Him Protection — If Hungary Votes “Correctly”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claims that Vladimir Putin personally assured him that Hungary would not face Russian retaliation if it voted “appropriately” at the EU summit.

According to a video published by a government-linked propagandist, Orbán said he had written to Putin weeks earlier, asking whether Moscow would respond if the EU seized frozen Russian central bank assets — and whether Russia would take into account how individual member states voted.

Orbán claims Putin replied that Russia would use all instruments of international law to retaliate, and that these responses would indeed depend on each country’s position.

“We Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said, adding that Hungary made it clear it would not support the seizure of any country’s frozen reserves — not only Russia’s.

Orbán also suggested that if the EU can seize Russian reserves, Hungary’s own reserves could be next, noting that part of Hungary’s foreign currency reserves are held in the same locations.

Following this, Orbán reportedly instructed Finance Minister Mihály Varga to find a way to relocate Hungary’s reserves — raising serious concerns about central bank independence.

This is not diplomacy.
This is open acknowledgment of political pressure, conditional voting, and foreign leverage inside the EU.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the President of Russia; I do not know whether this became public.

[00:00:05]
I asked him whether, if the Union were to seize the frozen Russian assets, there would be retaliatory measures,

[00:00:15]
and whether, in the course of those retaliatory measures, the Russians would take into account how each country voted on this decision.

[00:00:21]
And I received a reply stating that, using all instruments of international law, there would be strong retaliatory measures,

[00:00:28]
and that they would take into account how each member state of the Union had taken a position.

[00:00:34]
So we Hungarians have protected ourselves, and we made it clear — and I do so again now — that Hungary will not support the seizure of the frozen foreign currency reserves of any country,

[00:00:41]
not only Russia, but any country.

[00:00:48]
Hungary will not support this under any circumstances.

[00:00:51]
Moreover, there is another branching but important issue, because Hungarian foreign currency reserves are also held in the same place where the Russian ones are now.

[00:01:00]
And if it is possible to take the Russians’ reserves once, what if it occurs to someone to take the Hungarians’ as well?

[00:01:05]
Therefore, I have already instructed the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the central bank that, if this decision is made,

[00:01:10]
they should immediately submit a proposal to the government on how we should think, under such circumstances, about the secure placement of Hungary’s foreign currency reserves.

Official statement by TISZA

Official statement by TISZA

On Monday, I turned to the Budapest Metropolitan Court and requested that the court immediately prohibit the government-affiliated tabloid Bors from spreading total lies at taxpayers’ expense in four million copies across the country.

As is well known, several courts have previously ruled that government propaganda has been spreading outright falsehoods about TISZA.

Those in power are afraid, and that is why they have now escalated the situation: they intend to spend billions of forints in public money to deliver, in a 16-page publication, the outrageous lies written by Orbán and his circle to every household.

The court must decide on this matter without delay and must prohibit Orbán and his associates from distributing the smear sheet called Bors. Even if the court were to rule weeks later that every word of Orbán’s propaganda is a lie, by then it would be impossible to remove the garbage from people’s mailboxes.

It is entirely reasonable to expect that, in a case of such gravity, the court should not delay its decision any further.

When Poverty Is Normalized: István Nagy, Hungary’s Minister of Agriculture, Tests Cheap Chips

In this video, István Nagy, Hungary’s Minister of Agriculture, compares cheap and expensive potato chips.

The conclusion?
There is almost no difference — so people should simply buy the cheaper one.

This is not consumer education.
This is crisis management disguised as reassurance.

When living standards fall so low that a minister feels the need to publicly calm people by saying “don’t worry, the cheap one is just as good”, something is deeply wrong.

Food prices have exploded.
Real wages have fallen.
Millions are forced to downgrade — not by choice, but by necessity.

And instead of addressing why people are pushed toward the cheapest option, the government normalizes it.

This is how poverty is reframed as reasonableness.
This is how decline is sold as common sense.

A country where ministers test chips to comfort citizens
is not a country doing well.

After 15 Years in Power, Péter Takács — State Secretary for Healthcare — Admits Hungary Still Spends Below the EU Average

Seven Months Ago — Still Below the EU Average

Seven months ago, Péter Takács, State Secretary for Healthcare at Hungary’s Ministry of Interior, publicly acknowledged:

Hungary spends just over 6% of GDP on healthcare, consistently below the EU average — and “even we believe more would be needed.”

This was not an opposition claim.
It was a government admission.

Seven months have passed.
The ratio has not changed.

When asked why healthcare spending was never raised to EU levels during 15 years in power, there was no clear answer — only:

  • blame shifted to the opposition,
  • attacks on new political movements,
  • and technical explanations about accounting categories.

Yes, nominal budgets increased.
But relative spending did not.

EU comparisons rely on standardized methodology.
Ranking near the bottom is not a statistical misunderstanding — it reflects political priorities.

Acknowledging the problem while refusing responsibility for it is not reform.
It is an admission of failure.

Never forget.

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