Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör responded to the mayor's message to commuters in a Facebook post.

"Do you commute to Budapest every day? The Mayor has a message for you:

"Don't come here!"

Many hundreds of thousands of people regularly commute to Budapest. They do it for various reasons: they study, work, acquire goods, etc. The ill-considered and uncoordinated traffic restrictions in Budapest and other unpleasant things (e.g. the bicycle lane without cyclists) have caused them unprecedented annoyance in recent months. They spent many extra hours in traffic. Hours that could have been spent at work or with their families.

Gergely Karácsony , instead of showing signs of minimal empathy, simply states that it will not work for these people to get into the car and commute to Budapest every day. This puts the Stop sign in front of hundreds of thousands of people . He does this knowing very well: there can be a thousand different reasons why someone commutes. Most of the time, they don't do it for fun, but because of some other circumstance (If the mayor were to arrive in Budapest at six o'clock on a Monday morning on the M3, he would see people who come from hundreds of kilometers to stand on construction sites. People who, under his administration, in most cases he did not have a job.)

Unlike Gergely Karácsony, the hundreds of thousands of people who commute to Budapest cannot afford to get tired of getting a driver to their workplace from one of the lankas in Buda sometime in the morning. They arrive on time and live according to a strict schedule.

We are used to the fact that in the world of Gergely Karácsony, someone else is always to blame. The government is usually found by the Great Faulty Crosshairs, now the commuters have been included. We ask only one thing, if you are bored with your work, if you cannot achieve meaningful results in the office of mayor, at least do not do one thing: do not single out Hungarians who go to work for all of this."

(the quote comes from Gergely Karácsony's interview with the Szemlélek portal today)

Source: Facebook

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