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State Secretary: Pact between Brussels and Tisza Party is preventing renovation of ambulance stations and hospitals

"The Brussels elite is trying to help bring the Tisza Party to power at all costs, and in return, they’ll carry out the orders they are given from the Brussels-based power centre," Peter Takács said.

Peter Takács, the state secretary for health, said in Győr, in north-western Hungary, on Wednesday that the "pact" between Brussels and Hungary's opposition Tisza Party led by Péter Magyar is preventing the renovation of ambulance stations and hospitals.

A total of 54 ambulance stations have been built and 120 upgrades since Fidesz and the Christian Democrats came into power in 2010, Takács told a press conference, adding that this covered around 60 percent of the country’s ambulance stations.

"We would like to continue down this path, but there’s something that keeps slowing this process down," the state secretary said.

"The Brussels elite is trying to help bring the Tisza Party to power at all costs, and in return, they’ll carry out the orders they are given from the Brussels-based power centre," Takács said.