The Prime Minister acknowledged with regret that he was unable to induce the departing cabinet member to extend their initial two-year agreement concluded at the time of the establishment of the Government. The Ministry of National Resources covers the areas of education, culture, health care and social issues.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accepted the resignation tendered on Wednesday and thanked the departing minister for the great work Miklós Réthelyi has performed in the past two years as a member of the Hungarian Government. The departing minister is of the opinion that he has accomplished the tasks he was entrusted with, however, as he wrote, leadership of the ministry will in the future require a person who is actively involved in day-to-day politics.

According to Réthelyi, the past two years have proven that the established mode of operation that covers a number of areas has come up to expectations also in practice. As he put it, with the passage of these stormy times, the ministry will be capable of managing complex tasks such as health preservation, the fight against drug abuse and the family as a core value.

In his answer, the Prime Minister stated it is obvious that, after the 2010 elections, the areas most in need of change, novel thinking, creative logic and leadership wisdom were all transferred to the ministry headed by Miklós Réthelyi. “Hungarian society’s intellectual, cultural and value reforms are closely linked to your two-year ministership”, Viktor Orbán said.

Source: kormany.hu