The prime minister explained that we believe the market has a power to put the economy in order and to consider when the state will get into it. However, we are not living in normal times now.
Energy prices are behind inflation, it would be good to stop this at the border, but it is not possible. We need to defend ourselves: we need to raise wages, we need pensions so that people can pay higher prices, and price levels need to be reduced.
We can’t catch the average price level, but we can achieve results in a targeted way.
he added.
Viktor Orbán then listed the measures aimed at curbing inflation:
- overhead reduction,
- fuel price cap,
- kamatstop,
- food price stop.
They looked around abroad, examining the example of the Serbs. It is not possible to regulate the prices of all in-store items, but the Serbs selected five and brought the prices back to previous levels.
In the case of six goods, Hungary will return to the price level of 15 October last year and is in line with the stores they have to keep the amount of goods, otherwise there will be a penalty.
I’m not a fortune teller, but if we can keep these six products where they were in mid-October last year, we’ll make up for that rise in inflation.
Not only should the government represent market considerations, we cannot spread our hands if something goes wrong in the market. When it is very detrimental to experience the usual different things, you have to intervene there, he added.
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