Hungary’s President: ‘overpopulation is not the problem’

Hungarian President
Photo: FB/Katalin Novák

People “support the family and raising children”, the office of President Katalin Novák said citing answers to one of ten questions Novák posted on social media platform X on Thursday.

Following a meeting with X owner Elon Musk last September, with demographic problems high on its agenda, Novák launched her Humanity Tuesdays survey, posing a question each week in an effort to focus attention on those problems.

According to the presidential office’s statement, the most popular question in the survey was read by 42 million people, while 62 percent of those that answsered thought that people raising children “cannot suffer an economic disadvantage”.

Fully 70.7 percent of respondents said they had plans to start a family, while 87 percent urged making jobs family-friendly. Eighty-six percent also supported Novák’s position that women should be helped have a family and a career at the same time. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they would like to have three or more children, “which means that more children are desired than are actually born,” the statement said. Over 86 percent of the respondents said they agreed with a remark by Novák, who said “overpopulation is not the problem … the family does not cause but will resolve climate change.”

Here is what she wrote on Facebook:

“People are in favour of family and having children. This is shown by the answers given to the 10 questions asked in the survey Humanity Tuesdays. I launched the questionnaire series after meeting Elon Musk in September, who also joined the initiative. Here are some of the results:

– the most popular question reached 42 million people;
– 62% of respondents said that people raising children should not be at a financial disadvantage;
– 70,7% of respondents would like to start a family;
– 59% of respondents would like to have three or more children;
– 87% think that family-friendly workplaces are needed;
– 86% think that women should be offered the choice of having both family and career together;
– 86,2% agreed that family is not the cause but the solution to the climate crisis.
The lesson from also Humanity Tuesdays is that people are in favour of family and having children, so they must be supported in this.“

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