It turned out once again that Mayor Gergely Karácsony's previous election promises are not worth much. The left-wing politician campaigning for the leadership of the capital promised the voters that he would reduce the costs of these companies by creating a common capital utility provider.
At the same time, since the election of Karácsony, the wage bill of Fővárosi Közterület-fenntráto Zrt., for example, has not only decreased, but also increased: while employees were laid off, almost HUF 350 million more was spent on salary payments in the first quarter of this year than in the third quarter of 2019, which marked the end of István Tarlós' term as mayor. quarter.
It is not known whether the capital intended as a show measure that it appointed the same person to a similar position at Budapesti Távhőszolgáltató (Főtáv) and FKF. János Mészáros, who also works as strategic deputy general manager, earn in total by holding the two positions. Although it is announced at FKF in accordance with the "glass pocket law" that the former controlling director works for a monthly salary of HUF 1.3 million, as well as a bonus of up to forty percent of the annual salary, as well as an annual cafeteria allowance of HUF 513,000, the Főtáv website only last year's data can be found, which show that the other deputy general manager, Tibor Orbán , was also paid HUF 1.3 million per month plus a cafeteria worth HUF 500,000 per year.
For the Hungarian Nation , Jr. Zoltán Lomnici said that according to the above-mentioned law, a natural person can be remunerated for no more than a position as a senior official in a publicly-owned business company, and for a maximum of one supervisory board membership in a publicly-owned business company. Thus, if János Mészáros receives remuneration from both utilities, it violates the legal provision , since the strategic deputy general manager of FKF Zrt. and the economic deputy general manager of Főtáv Zrt. are considered senior employees.
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(Cover photo: MTI/Zoltán Balogh)
