Hungarian Socialists: Auctions Cannot Prevent Foreign Ownership Of Farmland
- 26 Oct 2015 3:00 AM
The government’s auctioning off state-owned farmland will not prevent foreign nationals from obtaining estates in Hungary, the Socialist Party said. On the contrary, foreigners could not buy land if all those plots remained publicly owned, Socialist deputy chair Zoltán Gőgös told a press conference.
He argued that Hungarians now buying farmland could sell their property after a moratorium of twenty years, when they could end up with foreign owners, and added that the government’s land sale programme was the “greatest swindle of the past 25 years”.
Gábor Harangozó, Socialist deputy head of Parliament’s agricultural committee, insisted that the plots to be auctioned were already on lease, and the leaseholders, who had obtained those leases in “crooked” ways, would have options to obtain them easily.
Earlier government office head János Lázár said that the government programme was aimed at preventing foreign nationals from acquiring farmland in the country.
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