With corruption for lifelong learning

Zoltán Vajda, the left-wing candidate in the 16th district, famous for listing and hunting Fidesz members, among others, has now entered the news for abusing EU support awarded to his company.

the Index , Vajda may have misused EU subsidies, the company of the candidate of the opposition coalition in Garden City, Fest Hetek Kft., submitted an EU application for English language training in 2012.

In 2010, the left-liberals got out of power, so Vajda also lost his well-paying jobs, so he switched to EU funds. He applied for English language training with his company, Fest Hetek Kft., in 2012: they received HUF 3,384,592 for the ten-month project. The whole thing is made suspicious by the fact that, according to press information, the name of the left-wing candidate who speaks English at a high level and teaches English at the university appears on the attendance records of the classes in the same way as those who wanted to learn the language through his company.

A political wind-cock

Vajda - who became a local government representative in 2019 as an opposition candidate in the XVI. in the district - a real political wind-cock: he started in Együtt (he tore up posters in the colors of this party in 2017), then declared himself independent, then joined Péter Márki-Zay's movement, the MMM, but in the end he chose the MSZP faction, that is, he would sit on the benches of the socialists in the National Assembly, should he win - reports the Mandiner .

The current opposition candidate for Kertváros and Alsórákos already became part of a scandalous case in 2018 - when he also ran in the parliamentary elections, where he achieved almost 40 percent, but Kristóf Szatmáry from Fidesz was ahead of him by less than two percentage points. A complaint was filed against him by a XVI. district resident after

his name was also on the list of four parties to which he did not sign a recommendation.

Among the parties and candidates suspected of forgery was Zoltán Vajda, who was determined by the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office that he would not have reached the minimum amount of five hundred public recommendations in his campaign if he had not submitted forms on which signatures had been forged by unknown persons. They added: "From an objective point of view, the commission of a crime against the order of the election can be established." Although the politician was interrogated as a suspect in the case, after the left-wing primary election debate last fall, Zoltán Vajda answered a journalist's question and said, "of course there is no such case, there are no prosecution papers".

He would list and hunt

Apart from Péter Márki-Zay and Ferenc Gyurcsány, perhaps Zoltán Vajda made the most shocking statement in the current campaign. At a conference, he said: "There is a structural problem with the Hungarian pension system, the first of which is that there are few immigrants." And there are plenty of Vajda bon-mots. In January 2018, he stated on Hír Tv that his personal ambition was to hunt down Kristóf Szatmáry, the Fidesz parliamentary representative of the constituency, and in 2020 he called on his Facebook page to start listing those in the district who are part of the "inhuman, fascist oppressive system Supporters of the Fidesz government.

Zoltán Vajda provides a much more serious surface for attack than the blunt statements by the fact that he was a senior official at the State Supervision of Financial Organizations and the Financial Stability Council during the Gyurcsány-Bajnai governments. Like other prominent people, he did practically nothing tangible to prevent the tragedy of the foreign currency borrowers or at least to mitigate the damage. His opponents put it this way: as a senior official, he also "profited" from foreign currency loans, since he took a significant salary in order to

watch idly the ruin of indebted people for several years.

He criticized her, but she used the chocolate

Many also criticize the fact that, while he is a militant critic of the government's family support system, he himself is a beneficiary of it: Zoltán Vajda, who earns HUF 20-22 million a year based on his assets declaration, used the chocolate (the maximum, HUF 10 million) and the car purchase allowance for large families support, although it cannot really be called needy.

And it is not good for Vajda, which is proclaiming a fight against corruption, that

his political allies were burned by the big garden city real estate tycoon.

It is about the house in Sashalm under Albán utca 21, which was sold by the Gyurcsány government to the local socialists for HUF 19.2 million, who renovated the property for HUF 20 million. Later, the district MSZP headquarters was bought by the district president, Ferenc Csizmazia, and his brothers, but they only paid HUF 16 million for the approximately 200 square meter building on a 917 square meter garden plot. In this case, a report was recently filed due to suspicion of budget fraud and mismanagement.

Source: 2022plus, Index, Mandiner

Photo: Zoltán Vajda and Péter Márki-Zay/Facebook