In the gap between New Year's Christmas and New Year's Eve, we could have collected something for a bouquet - without the need for completeness - from the most memorable statements of our mayor Gergely. This year Gergely Szilveszter Karácsony did not miss a single opportunity to entertain us.

Statement Zero (no words)

After the end of the magical hundred days, we were faced with the fact that the mayor, now as the leader of a "free city", has not yet fulfilled any of his campaign promises - not many since then - but in return he has flooded the capital's institutions with the shadows of the past, swelling Budapest's budget by one and a half times. This is how the faces, most of them connected to Gyurcsány, returned to the blood circulation of the capital and tried their tentacles on the big, common coffers.

First statement

"The surface in the inner-city districts is up to 20-25 °C warmer than in the greener parts of the city. That's why I announced a climate emergency in Budapest, which is not a loud slogan, but a daily reality."

However, this "daily reality" still remained a resounding slogan, because no measures aimed at ending the emergency followed it. Of course, even the fashionable artificial word is problematic, since by real emergency we mean an acute emergency (fire, flood, earthquake, mass disaster, etc.), which certainly requires immediate action. But let's face it, when Feri Gerije stands in front of the City Hall and languidly shouts "climate emergency, climate emergency" and then wanders back to his office and posts something about the wonderful world of fleas, only stupidity seems threatening. It was also around this time that the installation of the industrious little beehives at bus stops was discussed, but this idea fell through the cracks, it is true that they were replaced by beekeepers in the capital, for the greater glory of democracy, and to optimize the now bloated costs.

Second statement

"The tellers of Fidesz are mowing bee pastures, referring to climate change as 'green madness', while the Orbán government is pouring concrete and selling off our green areas, our natural treasures, and the future of our descendants."

Bringing the term bee-breathers into public discourse was one of the most emblematic movements of Christmas, but unfortunately, the areas left fallow due to the withdrawal of money do not magically advance into flowery meadows that attract bees, at most only in the mayor's imagination. But it is also remarkable how, in theory, the green mayor became the number one driver of the Liget project - the project would increase the green areas of the Liget from 60 to 65 percent - or how strange plans were formulated for the inclusion of the Mocsárosdűlő. But let's not forget the execution of the 153-year-old Főkert this year, which was merged into a single wonderful holding company, BKM Budapesti Közművek Nonprofit Zrt, together with the Budapest Cemetery Institute, Főkétüsz and Főtávegy. And who is the leader of this holding? We'd rather show it!

Third statement

 "After my election, I will hold an international press conference in English, at which I will announce, for example, that Fudan University will not be built. (…) I don't really need to study, but I'll try to brush it up a bit, I have such a hyper-passive English knowledge, now I'm activating it a bit."

The media covered Karácsony's foreign language difficulties a lot - less about his native speakers - but the fact is that for the teaching assistant job he took on at Corvinus, he should have had a type C language exam in at least one foreign language or an equivalent state certificate, but the mayor does not have such a document and did not have it.

Fourth statement

"Free parking causes chaos in big cities, including in Budapest - primarily in the downtown districts. First of all, it must be made clear: the problem can be solved by the person who caused it. The introduction of free parking obviously has nothing to do with dealing with the epidemic."

It's that crappy money again, which instead of flowing into the pockets of good cadres, stays with the people. Outrageous! I note that reducing the number of BBK flights was a brilliant move during the outbreak of the epidemic, because what else could have been used to reduce the number of infections than by measures that crowded people into closed vehicles? Then, our militant chief citizen called on the public institutions and the malls to open their parking lots for free, but he did not feel it was obligatory for him, so the parking lot of the City Hall remained closed to unauthorized persons .

Fifth statement, or: I don't want to!

In connection with his candidacy for prime minister, the mayor took a truly fairytale path: he claimed everything and the opposite as well.

Then came the 500 million HUF campaign (from an unknown source), where slogans such as "I am ready and able" and "I defeat Orbán" were uttered. However, this did not happen.

Photo: Facebook/Viktor Orbán

He later commented on the primary campaign:

"I was bored with the prime minister candidate debates. I was there, I knew that about a million people were watching this right now, and between two questions, I thought about whether my child was going to volleyball practice."

Sixth statement

He is short and fat, I am tall and thin

- said Orbán about Viktor to the British Economist , and although he later apologized for his statement, the question arises whether all this can be classified as a Freudian statement in a proofread and then approved interview?

Seventh statement

When the on-board camera of a motorcycle driving through the Erzsébet Bridge recorded that the mayor's car was constantly driving in the bus lane, Karácsony answered the question about the incident as follows:

"I don't remember driving in a bus lane while awake".

He then added that he hoped that his driver did not do something like that with the company car either, but if he did, he would talk to him. At the same time, our person without a driver's license stated that

"I very rarely drive a company car, practically never".

Finally, here are a few emblematic sentences regarding City Hall Gate

Gergely Karácsony responded to the accusations related to the planned sale of the monument building in ATV, as follows:

"I don't think there is such a case."

Not long after, he announced that

"we are just before a decisive parliamentary election, the primary election was a great success, and this type of news may be included in the campaign strategy, and perhaps someone has outdone someone else".

Then he filed a complaint in the case, which he thought did not exist. Finally, after Anonymus' many videos and the many reports made by others, when the police began to investigate for influence peddling, fraud, embezzlement, bribery and acceptance of bribes, and ordered house searches in connection with this, he wrote the following:

"The police have also become a tool of Fidesz propaganda, investigative authorities have been involved in political discrediting campaigns - they have crossed this red line as well. They will be held accountable for it... From today, no one is safe in this country.”

And what happened after all this?

"We sent them to the stinking shit, Marci"

- Karácsony responded to the first reporter's question regarding the house searches in the City Hall case. As a guest of Partizán's Sunday evening broadcast, the mayor said:

"I told you that it was a border crossing, I shouted at the Minister of the Interior. (…) I'm not a shouting type, really once every ten years, but that was now."

I honestly don't know who's up with him, but after all this, the only thing I can think of about Gergely Karácsony is the famous scene below from the classic Erik the Viking And nothing else. But nothing really.