The Coffers Are Empty: We Have Already Collected 71 Percent of the Released Budget Deficit Target by the End of April
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By the end of April, the duo of Orbán and Márton Nagy had managed to collect 91 percent of the deficit planned for the entire year. The coffers are practically empty, and the deficit is now 1,000 billion larger than the previous largest.
And we are above 90 percent of the figure in the budget law.
It seems that the year 2026 will be memorable for Hungary not only from a political but also a financial perspective. According to a recent press release from the Ministry of National Economy, the central subsystem of the public finances accumulated a deficit of 3,849.8 billion forints by the end of April, which corresponds to 70.7 percent of the annual deficit target. This figure is worrying in itself, but if we add that the country has already…
Almost 100 percent of the annual Hungarian budget deficit was met by April.
Ruthless data has arrived, and this is what Péter Magyar's government must face - The state accumulated a deficit of 3,849.8 billion forints in the first four months.
By the end of April, the budget deficit stood at 91 percent of the annual statutory target. Incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar recently posted that, as you know, the outgoing government's own calculations also indicate a significant increase in the deficit for the whole year.
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