Only down!

In the sticky fever dream of the opposition, Mészáros and Garancsi are ransacking the Citadel for 5.3 billion forints of public money to erect a single, very big flagpole, a 35-meter one, which Orbán Farquaad can stare at from the Karmelita. That's how you compensate. Oh, how many Bentleys could poor Imre Mártha have bought from it.

The opposition has to smear everything it touches. If you want to excel at something, you can't do anything else. He has no measurable achievements, it is true, he did not have them when he was trusted and could govern. However, construction requires talent, strength and perseverance. And humility towards work.

It is easier to destroy, easier to deconstruct; and it always went well there. Just like denial. It is enough to recall the decades after the regime change: the first thing the socialists who came back to power with the reorganization of 1994 did was to destroy the World Exhibition in Budapest, and after their second return in 2002, they immediately liquidated the exhibition of Millenáris Álmok dreamers - Hungarians speaking to the world, which showed the great results of the Hungarian genius in. And the logic of denial also appeared in 2017, when the referendum initiated by Momentum made the Hungarian Olympics impossible. And then came the wheel alignment against the Liget project.

They hate construction, they abhor it, they don't understand its reason or purpose. It is no coincidence that in the last thirty years, Budapest and the country owe all the worthwhile developments to right-wing governments; from the Rákóczi Bridge through the National Theatre, the Puskás Arena, the Castle Garden Bazaar to the rebirth of Buda Castle.

But now the ball is on again, the small-minded envious are once again calling virtue a crime, construction a theft, and the communication machine is making an oiled noise, not sleeping a wink. In their fever dream, Mészáros and Garancsi are ransacking the Citadel for 5.3 billion forints of public money in order to erect a single, very big flagpole, a 35-meter one, which Orbán Farquaad can stare at from the Karmelita. That's how you compensate. Oh, but how many Bentleys could Imre Mártha have bought from it, for joint use with ... With the poor, well.

In vain, as he lives, he judges. But let's leave the glue spewed from the stream of letters of the DK leader and his minions, let's look at the facts instead. On July 18 of last year, the National Hauszmann Program published the following on its Facebook page:

"We have started the renovation of the Citadel! In our latest short film, you can learn about the adventurous history and future of one of Hungary's most famous landmarks. When was the Citadel built and what was it used for? When will the area be renewed? What will await the visitors here after the works are finished? Watch our short film for the answers!"

Therefore, the renovation of the Citadel is part of the National Haussmann Program, and the ideas about it will be published in July 2021, so it will not come as a surprise to any independent media if actual steps are taken regarding the renovation. It could also be – and it would certainly be very democratic and constitutional – that nothing happens, but this is not the government, nor is it the project of the government quarter.

Despite all this, the news that it exploded like a bomb and then spread like wildfire the day before yesterday

"The company Lőrinc Mészáros and István Garancsi set up a flagpole at the Citadelán with 5.3 billion forints".

HVG - including Telex - later corrected and corrected its nuanced mistake, now stating the real numbers: it is not the flagpole that costs HUF 5.3 billion, but the entire investment. The rod itself and the associated fittings will cost HUF 106 million, which is only 2 percent of the total investment.

A minor mistake, isn't it?

The bottom line is that the public procurement took place in an open procedure, and the cooperation of ZÁÉV Építőipari Zrt. and Market Építő Zrt. saves the customer half a billion forints, since the total cost of the project was originally estimated at nearly HUF 5.8 billion.

Then I will summarize: the Citadel, which became national property again in 2014 and was left to decay and rot for years by the socialist governments, is now finally being renewed, only the proportion of green areas will increase by one and a half times. This world heritage site is not private property, it is not someone's villa, and public money is not converted into private property, but remains there tangibly. Owned by the community, for the pleasure of visitors. But according to the opposition, this is not good because it is corruption. On the contrary, what at Christmas is transparency and development. Obviously. With the dismantled bins and ATMs, the drug addicts, the homeless, the garbage, the excrement, the wastelands christened as bee pastures, the layoffs of the masses of the little people, the 54 chief advisors, the real estate tycoons, and the City Hall case.

And when we think there is no further down, it turns out that it is. There is. Because when they reach the bottom of the pit, after a short thought, they dig another hole and continue digging. Down, only down.