Since Gergely Karácsony was elected in 2019, he was only interested in overthrowing the government - former deputy mayor Gábor Bagdy told Magyar Nemzet, reacting, among other things, to the fact that the current city administration was expecting a change of government, and thus the budget was only planned for half a year.
According to an article published in the daily's Wednesday edition, Gábor Bagdy, who was Budapest's financial deputy mayor between 2010 and 2019, said: the fact that Budapest prepared a half-yearly budget in 2022 is definitely a failure of Gergely Karácsony.
According to Gábor Bagdy, the current one is just a balloon budget, also responding to the statement of the current deputy mayor Ambrus Kiss, that the capital's leadership already knew when the 2022 budget was adopted that there would not be enough money.
According to press reports, the deputy stated in relation to the capital's next six-month budget: it cannot contain cuts, but the budget also depends on what the next government's Budapest policy will be like. Ambrus Kiss added: "I am planning a budget amendment for May, but it is very important that we do not want to go down a path where we start to mutilate ourselves."
According to Gábor Bagdy, the budget formally complies with the legislation, but at the same time it is a disaster from a political point of view, as at least fifty billion forints of completely unfounded income were planned: they want to take out a loan of thirty billion forints, and they also expected a support of twenty billion from the new, they hope, left-wing government to help Budapest. The politician added: the capital's management basically put everything on the change of government, it did not try to save money, which is why it may have happened that in the reorganization of companies, thrift was not reflected in the remuneration of the new managers.
Source: Democrat
Photo: Attila Kovács
