"Based on what we have learned from the previous talks the Prime Minister held with the socialist party's parliamentary group and the recent cabinet meeting, it seems we are returning to autumn 2005", declared Tibor Navracsics, the parliamentary group leader of Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union at a press conference on Tuesday. "Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai has himself announced the start of the election campaign", continued Navracsics, adding that "at the moment we do not know what role he wishes to play in it but we see that he assigns the same task to MSZP as his predecessor, Mr Gyurcsány, did". "The same thing is happening again: the socialists are not telling the truth about the state of the economy and are trying to deceive the public", Navracsics emphasized.

The parliamentary group leader recalled that in addition to not telling the truth, just as in autumn 2005, the people are worse off today and the government was trying to conceal all this from the electorate by taking up loans and indebting the country's future generations. He emphasized that the 2010 budget "would be a drastic austerity measure which has two messages. On the one hand, by taking money away from local governments, public services will be inaccessible for the citizens. As a result, life in Hungary next year will be more difficult." The parliamentary group leader said the budget's second message was that only the rich would be able to afford living normally in Hungary.