Government to close casinos in Hungary? – VIDEO

Lawmakers of LMP will submit a bill to parliament that would close casinos, a leader of the opposition party said at an online press conference on Sunday.

Péter Ungár said it is “absurd” that while the catering sector is closed because of the pandemic, casinos “mostly run by business people close to [governing] Fidesz” remain open. “Coronavirus spreads in casinos in the same way it does in a restaurant or a bar,” he added.

Interestingly, a new Hungarian political movement, the Civic Response, tried to shut a casino down in the downtown of Budapest at the beginning of February. They shared a video about their action which you can watch below. MP János Bencsik, one of the founders of the new movement, said that it is a discrimination that Hungarian restaurants and hotels had to close, but casinos owned by government-close oligarchs are still open.

“If they can remain open the government should allow all caterers to re-open, but if they have to remain closed because of the virus, all casinos have to close, too.”

According to the government, casinos are not members of the catering industry like hotels, restaurants or cafés, that is why they did not have to close last November.

Source: MTI, DailyNewsHungary