The exclusion of families and the destruction of healthy natural environment is the most serious problem with the way the Fidesz mafia is privatising and building on lakeshores, said MSZP party director Zsolt Molnár on Spirit FM's "Actual" programme on Friday morning.
"These processes have started on the shores of all natural lakes: at Lake Balaton, Lake Velencei and Lake Fertő the tendency is growing immensely, but Lake Öreg (Old Lake) in Tata has now also been added to this group. It is clear that the current governing majority puts its hand on anything that can still be taken, but when it comes to our natural waters, our living organisms and habitats, this issue is particularly sensitive, as it is not possible to look at them from a purely investment and business perspective," Molnár pointed out.
He said that his party finds it outrageous that Hungarian families are being excluded by making access to beaches, among other things, subject to a fee, and that they condemned the disregard for the protection of natural values even more. "The events now happening are taking place on the basis of unscrupulous investor considerations, and another addendum to this is that obviously the entrepreneurs close to the government enjoy priority, but we are not surprised about this", Molnár recalled after the Fidesz majority of Parliament's Sustainable Development Committee on Wednesday did not even allow the MSZP resolution proposal protecting natural waters to be debated in plenary.
"We have not given up the fight; perhaps we could say that we are preparing for one of the biggest campaigns ever this summer: the Hungarian Socialist Party will launch a major campaign to protect lakeshores, animals, habitats and natural waters," he said.
He explained that the campaign is not primarily political, although they would also like to point out that this "governance" must end in 2022. "Alongside this, with the local population, with NGOs, for example in the Agárd-Gárdony area, or on the shores of Lake Balaton, there are dozens of civil initiatives that support these efforts by the opposition to protect and defend these common values. So you could say that a general movement, a people's movement is being launched on this issue," the MSZP party director underlined.
