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DONÁTH: 'GOVT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT CHILDREN'

 

The government “doesn’t really care about children”, Anna Donáth, the leader of the opposition Momentum Movement, told protesters gathered in front of the presidential Sandor Palace in Budapest on Saturday, adding that “for them the family is just an empty phrase”. Donáth said society needed “strong female role models, but not like Katalin Novák,” who, she added, was resigning as head of state “but not for reasons of conscience”. The Momentum politician said Novák “should have apologised to the children abused in Bicske”. She also said the government only saw people as voters, adding that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also bore responsibility for the developments surrounding the case.