The days of Terézváros have been characterized by coalition infighting and a campaign of revenge since February. Tamás Soproni, the immediate mayor of the district, already says that he spends board meetings in the company of "two opposition parties, MSZP and Fidesz". Non-functioning committees and an expiration campaign in the shadow of a fourteen million dollar loan agreement.
Csaba Hatvani's name usually does not need an explanation when it comes up in connection with Terézváros. The former Terézváros representative, currently the president of the local MSZP, gained national recognition in connection with the infamous Andrássy út real estate scam in 2004. Hatvani and his associates, including ex-socialist deputy mayor György van Fürst, were convicted in the first instance in 2017, and in 2018 the court ordered them to pay one hundred and twenty-three million forints to the Municipality of Terézváros.
However, there is a small problem: Hatvani's only valuable asset is his home in Szigetszentmiklós, which, according to estimates, can be auctioned for fifty million forints. The municipality started the enforcement procedure when district MSZP representative György Bálint arrived. The relationship between Bálint and Hatvani goes back a long time. The proceedings against Hatvani were already in full swing when György Bálint generously helped out the local MSZP leader with a loan of fourteen million forints on May 16, 2016. The loan agreement was signed in the presence of two witnesses, before whom György Bálint handed over the amount in cash.
After Hatvani did not pay, the contract was amended on May 2, 2018, the payment deadline was postponed, and a mortgage was added to Hatvani's house in Szigetszentmiklós, which was registered by the land office on June 30, 2018. The implementation started shortly after the contract amendment. After Hatvani's house was seized - by then a mortgage had already been registered on it - György Bálint also tried to get involved in the proceedings.
If it is successful, it would mean in practice that the priority goes to György Bálint during the procedure, after the payment of his fourteen million HUF, the Municipality of Terézváros could have received the amount due to him. "György Bálint, the current Terezváros representative of the MSZP, probably wanted to get involved in the execution against Csaba Hatvani by referring to a fictitious loan agreement concluded with Csaba Hatvani. The probably illegal involvement of György Bálint could have caused damage of more than fourteen million forints to the municipality," wrote mayor Tamás Soproni.
However, György Bálint and the district MSZP did not stop there. After not benefiting from the execution, György Bálint, as VI. district representative filed a lawsuit in the court VI. against district. In the end, the MSZP representative only won the payment of the costs of the lawsuit, because according to the order, Bálint had to know that with the mortgage contract, the basis for satisfying the defendant's rightful claim would be taken away in whole or in part.
Since the incident, Tamás Soproni has hinted, not so covertly, that György Bálint and the MSZP are waging a revenge campaign against him, and thus also against Terézváros. In the latest issue of the Terézváros magazine, the mayor went so far as to call the MSZP, in addition to Fidesz, the opposition, and while he described the former as loud but constructive in some places, he called the latter's style personal. Non-functioning committees, voted down proposals and an unapproved budget are therefore left after the coalition, which seems to have eaten itself.
Source and image: Magyar Hírlap
