Judit Czunyiné Bertalan, head of Védvonal, and Viktor Orbán, president of FIDESZ
“We are receiving an increasing number of complaints regarding layoffs in the public administration, which is why FIDESZ is offering legal assistance to those affected,” Bertalan Havasi, FIDESZ’s communications director, announced.
The FIDESZ-Védvonal advocacy network is providing legal assistance to those working in the central public administration who have fallen victim to the TISZA government’s “political purge,” Magyar Nemzet quoted Bertalan Havasi.
Havasi noted:
even the left-wing press no longer denies it, and TISZA voters are also complaining about the undignified and unlawful dismissals taking place in the public administration.
Government officials who, in recent years, have worked to the best of their ability in the central administration for the sake of all of Hungary and the Hungarian people, in accordance with their oath, do not deserve inhumane and undignified treatment or unlawful, mass dismissals, the communications director pointed out.
As Hungary Today reported, news has been circulating in recent days regarding a massive round of layoffs allegedly affecting 200 employees at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the TISZA government. Telex also reported several accounts of dismissals disguised as “mutually agreed terminations” and mass firings carried out with a “scorched-earth” approach. Government officials say the process is merely about establishing the new leadership’s operational framework, and there is no question of a 200-person layoff. However, some affected employees at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say they were left bewildered by their termination notices.
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured photo: Facebook/Orbán Viktor
