But it would have been nice if the organizers had hoisted the Hungarian flag on the flagpole at the end of the Tokyo Olympics, indicating the location of the next Olympics. But what happened to make it not so? You can read a retrospective about this in the Magyar Hírlap, from which we also took a look.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said this about Momentum at the time: "There is a political organization that didn't even hide the fact that it wasn't really interested in the Olympics, but wanted to become a party and enter the stage of political life, and that's why it didn't appreciate being a dream killer." divorce."
But let's also not forget that the opposition parties and politicians enthusiastically assisted in the launch of the "new SZDSZ", according to Fekete-Győr, they received 32-35 thousand signatures from the LMP, four thousand from the Hungarian Kétfarkú Kutya Párt, and ten thousand from the Together , ten thousand from Párbeszéd, 170 from Tibor Szanyi of MSZP, 1600-1700 from Ágnes Kunhalmi, and Momentum collected around two hundred thousand.
(So it was not only Momentum that was guilty, but also its accomplices. - ed.)
On January 18, 2017, the Metropolitan Election Committee authenticated the signature collection forms of the Momentum Movement, 138,000 valid signatures had to be collected from the citizens of the capital within 30 days. The question put to the referendum: "Do you agree with the Budapest Metropolitan Municipality withdrawing its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games?" The initiative was submitted by András Fekete-Győr as a private individual.
A day later, Gyula Molnár, the president of the MSZP, and Csaba Horváth, the party's representative in the Budapest General Assembly, assured their support for the signature collection launched for the 2024 Budapest Olympic bid.
Csaba Horváth emphasized that the Olympics would cost a family of four two million forints, which the government will take in the form of taxes. Momentum initiated a local referendum, but Csaba Horváth said that they are asking for a national referendum. (See our previous comment. The former "accomplices" are now keeping quiet and would let posterity sew it all up Momentum's neck - ed.)
On the same day (!!!), the LMP also started collecting signatures for the local referendum initiative opposing the Budapest Olympics.
This was announced by Antal Csárdi, the representative of the LMP in Budapest. He said that in the referendum, the people of Budapest will be able to express their opinion on what they would like to spend the HUF 3,000 billion that would be used to host the Olympics.
It is an amount that could be used to build forty super hospitals, or that would enable the renovation of the 3 subway and the extension of the subway lines, he said, adding that the LMP was against the organization of the Olympics from the first moment, because in their opinion it would be a problem in a city renovation of a metro line or the operation of hospitals, it is not allowed to organize the Olympics.
"Today, in Hungary, we have much more important things to do than organizing the Olympics, we should not sell the next generations' opportunity for a normal life for two weeks of pride. Let's organize a decent weekday first, and then we can think about organizing an Olympics," said the politician, who believes that the focus should be on education, healthcare and solving the housing crisis.
On February 13, 2017, Párbeszéd announced that it had organized a joint campaign and demonstrations for the middle of May, in time for the Budapest field visit of the members of the International Olympic Committee.
The initiative was announced by the party's spokesperson, Bence Tordai, who said that with this step "I would like to deliver the final blow" to the Budapest Olympics plan. On February 17, 2017, the Momentum Movement submitted a total of 266,151 signatures, announced András Fekete-Győr, the president of Momentum, at the building of the Metropolitan Elections Office. "We want to send a message to Fidesz, Viktor Orbán and István Tarlós that the fact that they did not ask the people whether there should be an Olympics in Hungary was a huge and huge omission on their part," emphasized Fekete-Győr, who also spoke about , it would be cowardly to withdraw the application before the referendum is called.
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