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The National Liberal Party (PNL) government has defended jobs throughout the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban told a plenary sitting of Parliament on Wednesday.
He made the clarifications as Social Democratic Party (PSD) lawmakers reproached him of not mentioning economic measures in his speech.
"You are speaking of one million unemployed, but official data with of ANOFM [the National Employment Agency] as of today show 256,000, of which 76,000 unemployed are still drawing unemployment benefits (...) What I give you are official data that exist in databases," the prime minister said.
