Almost ten percent of the workers at the social institutions run by the Hungarian Evangelical Brotherhood (MET) have resigned, some of whom have not been able to pay their salaries for two months – said Gábor Iványi in the For RTL News.
A few days ago, the pastor issued a public appeal for help after the operation of the MET’s social institutions was endangered. According to Iványi, they are still on the verge of being functional, but several of his colleagues have not been paid for the second month.
According to the head of the MET, they do not receive the normative for the tasks taken over from the state. “This attitude is extremely irresponsible: it is not customary to do such a thing in a cultural state, that anyone imposes the entire norm. This should not be done, and it is not really legal, but we do not have a coercive tool in our hands with which we could achieve that they at least observe their own laws on the other side,” he said.
“We have been doing this for more than 30 years, since then there have been many changes of government, but Hungary has not had such an inhumane government in the last 50 years”
– declared Iványi, and also talked about: they are waiting for the country’s government to wake up and at least draw a conclusion from the fact that they are isolated in the whole of Europe. “They are in cahoots with states that openly persecute Christians, and if this does not happen to someone, then the Hungarian state itself is in an even worse situation than the situation we are in.”
MET was stripped of its status by the state in 2011 with the new church law. The MET later won a lawsuit against the Hungarian state, as in 2013 the Constitutional Court ruled that the Hungarian state took away their status in an unconstitutional manner and is obliged to restore the legal status.
However, the government has not been willing to enter into a so-called “agreement on the performance of public tasks” with them since then, as a result of which the MET loses significant sums and is trapped in debt. This is only compounded by the fact that, according to the Iványis, “on the instructions of the competent minister of the government, the NAV (National Tax and Customs Administration) drastically reduced the basic standard for our work, and then confiscated it in full.” Because of this, they cannot now properly pay the approximately one thousand workers who work in their social, educational, health, family support and spiritual services.
2023-09-18 19:45:56
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