ENI – Hungarian church leaders have urged politicians to show greater responsibility, following days of street protests calling for the resignation of the country's premier after he admitted telling lies about the economy.
“We have observed with great concern the political processes of recent days,” the country's Ecumenical Council of Churches, which has 10 Protestant and Orthodox member denominations, said in a statement. “They testify to frustration, and to a grave moral crisis which our country has been led into by the irresponsible conduct and lies of governing politicians.”
The statement was issued as protests continued outside the Hungarian parliament, demanding the resignation of premier Ferenc Gyurcsany.
“There can be no trust in institutions of a democratic system if the moral categories which uphold this system are forgotten,” the Hungarian Reformed Chuch said in a statement. “The right to free speech, which is key to the state of law, cannot be identified with freedom to tell lies.”
