The Government will consult the public primarily on issues related to the creation of jobs as part of another series of national consultations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday in the morning show of the public service radio.

Among the possible questions of the social consultations, the Prime Minister mentioned the issue of the fair distribution of burdens, in the context of which he cited the banking and crisis taxes imposed in 2010. „Once the period of three years expires, we must repeatedly decide whether these were only temporary crisis measures, or whether the Hungarians want these to continue to form part of the Hungarian system of burden sharing also in the long run. I will vote for the latter when I fill in the questionnaire”, he stated. The consultation sheets containing 16 questions will, as anticipated, be posted to the some eight million Hungarian citizens of age next week.

This is now the fourth series of consultations, Viktor Orbán said with reference to the social consultations held with respect to the new constitution and social issues and the consultations conducted with pensioners.

As a result of the earlier consultations, important issues supported by the majority of society were incorporated into Hungary’s new Fundamental Law and other laws. These issues enjoying society’s overwhelming support were, for instance, that the State should recognise the raising of children also in the system of taxation and that the new public procurement law should prevent the “exportation” of the taxpayers’ money from the country via offshore companies. It is also in consequence of the earlier national consultations that the Fundamental Law makes specific mention of Hungarians beyond the borders and lays down the fundamental principle that the Government should build its economic policy on the foundations of work and should not regard benefits as the solution to unemployment. The Government likewise obtained confirmation in national consultations of the need that the State should provide help for foreign currency debtors in trouble who are faced with the threat of losing their homes and whose dramatically high debt rate was caused by the socialist governments’ mistaken and irresponsible policy.

(Ministry of Public Administration and Justice)