The picture above is the reality behind the "Free City" and "Open Society" gibberish. The prevailing conditions in the busy area of Budapest's City Hall, which is also frequently visited by tourists, clearly show the lack of pretension and incompetence of the left-wing leadership, Magyar Hírlap wrote.
Gergely Karácsony's concept of democracy was criticized by Fidesz in the capital city on its social media page, after the mayor did not call the scheduled meeting of the Capital Assembly for yesterday. This would have been the first time since September when they could have discussed matters affecting Budapest.
"We would have asked about many things, for example, the guarantee of the subsequent air conditioning of used Frankfurt trams, the daily traffic chaos in Budapest, the cost of the reduced-content renovation of Blaha Lujza tér, the condition of the city's green areas (bee and sheep pastures), the air conditioning of the subway trains promised in his campaign, or about his failure," listed the ruling party's organization in the capital.
They added: instead, Gergely Karácsony decided alone on behalf of the general assembly on the afternoon of the last day that gave him the opportunity to do so, among other matters, the purchase of thirty-year-old, scrapped trams ordered from Frankfurt worth HUF seven billion, which, moreover, were not even air-conditioned. "Despite what the mayor believes, he actually did not mess with the government.
He avoided democracy and betrayed the people of Budapest, whose campaign he promised participation and transparency. But for the mayor, it seems that the capital is not a priority, and everyone in Budapest can feel this firsthand," said Fidesz of Budapest.
András Schiffer, the founder of Lehet Más a Politika, also sharply criticized the mayor's interpretation of democracy in his latest Facebook post, where he reminds that the mayors of the "Free Cities" - Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Zagreb - write: "We do not insist on sovereignty and to outdated notions of self-identity, instead we believe in an open society based on shared values marked by freedom, human dignity, democracy, sustainability, equality, rule of law, social justice, tolerance and cultural diversity."
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