From the 2026 budget audit
181 millió Ft to 'other organisations' — selected by political officeholders.
A discretionary grant line to unspecified sectoral and civil organisations. No statutory mandate, no rights-protection function: a subjective allocation of public money by officeholders.
Roughly 44 Ft per taxpayer per year — 181 millió Ft total — flowing to associations selected at the discretion of political officeholders.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: grants to unnamed civil and sectoral organisations in the agricultural sphere, allocated through a central decision-making process. The unseen: the general taxpayer funding a discretionary transfer whose recipients are not determined by a statutory criterion, a rights-protection function, or a competitive process — but by whoever currently holds the allocation authority.
Objection
"Civil organisations in rural and agricultural communities do valuable work — cutting their funding damages the social fabric."
Answer
Organisations that do genuinely valuable work attract voluntary support from the people who benefit from them. A grant line whose recipients are chosen by political officeholders does not test value — it tests access to the allocation process. Associations that command genuine support from their members can be funded by those members. State-coerced transfers to the discretionary choices of officeholders are not what makes civil society work.
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The analyst's verdict
Support for other organisations
Rationale
A discretionary grant line to "other organisations" — unspecified sectoral and civil organisations. A line that transfers public money to associations selected by political officeholders, with no rights-protection function and no defined statutory mandate, is a subjective allocation of resources by officeholders. Associations that command genuine support from their members and beneficiaries can be funded by those members and beneficiaries. Eliminate in the 2026 cycle.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate the line in a single budget cycle.
Affected groups
The recipient organisations, which fund their activities from member and donor contributions thereafter.
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