Education and tax reform in Hungary are key components of job creation in the small-business sector, Lajos Bokros, prime-minister candidate of the Democratic Forum, said on Monday.
Bokros said small businesses needed the right conditions to create jobs out through their own efforts and in their own interests.
He said a predictable economic policy, corruption-free governance, higher standards in health care and a “critical mass of reforms” would further increase chances of job creation.
The one-time Socialist-Liberal finance minister said that while other parties were holding on to their “attained but now fading achievements”, the Democratic Forum wants to honestly tell Hungarians that they must work twice as hard and in more clever ways to even retain what has been achieved so far.
Bokros said his small conservative party aimed to stay away from a campaign of blind and irresponsible promises.
The party’s platform focuses on job creation to be backed up by a “clever state” and the structural reforms by which it is underpinned.
Asked about his expectations for the party’s showing in the spring elections, Bokros said: “the Democratic Forum, together with the liberal Free Democrats, will get a chance to win seats in the next parliament.”
Bokros, who helped steer Hungary’s through a rocky patch in its finances in the mid-nineties, said his party was ready to fulfill the role of a constructive opposition in the next parliament, including supporting any motion by the next government which stands in the interest of the country, he said.
Focusing on strengthening the education system may have no direct impact to the national economy but surely it has impact to the economy and to the lives of the people. The government should put a high priority in educational system.
It is really interesting to note that the government is really prioritizing on the educational system. I hope that I can find more online essays about the efforts of the government.