Last year, according to the narrative of the opposition - adopted by Gergely Karácsony - was about the bleeding of left-wing municipalities for political purposes. With the help of Fidesz representative Gábor Pintér from Budapest, Magyar Hírlap tried to map Budapest XV. district, i.e. in the 85,000-inhabitant district that includes Rákospalota, Újpalota and Pestújhely, how did this "bleeding" look.

The head of the district, Angéla Cserdiné Németh from DK, made a one-person decision regarding the maintenance of public spaces during the epidemic situation - when the representative body did not meet - and entrusted an external company with the task for two-thirds of the area of ​​the district. It should be known that the municipality also has its own public space maintenance company, which in 2020 performed this work for seven hundred million forints. After the reorganization, in 2021, the maintenance cost HUF nine hundred million , but the district's public areas did not become more beautiful, more well-kept, and more organized - said Gábor Pintér.

As another example, he mentioned that the government gave HUF 630 million in support for the renovation of Hősök út family doctor's offices, to which the local government must add roughly HUF 100 million. According to the contract concluded in December 2020, the handover deadline would have been November 30 last year, but the completion of the investment still has to wait months .

The municipality entrusted the renovation to an investor who has no real workforce, no references, and they even complain about unpaid subcontractors. Due to the construction error, the roof got wet, water flowed from the sockets, and the scaffolding came off. After all this , László Hajdu, the district's Gyurcsányist member of parliament, claimed in the parliament that the renovation could not be carried out successfully because the government raised the minimum wage, so there will be no money for it... The minimum wage increase at the whole local government level only amounts to forty million forints .

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