The former local president of the Gyurcsány party, the former deputy mayor, resigned from his mandate, the candidates promise more greenery, cleaner public areas and the expansion of the Mocsárosdűlői Hyperloop.

One of the former members of the local government of DK - who switched from the MSZP to the Gyurcsány party - was fed up with the mayor, so he resigned, so by-elections will also be held in Óbuda-Békásmegyer on September 4. The stake is whether the Fidesz-KDNP will continue its great march since April 3rd, whether it will win again in an individual constituency where an opposition mayor previously worked, as it has in several districts of the capital and in one or two rural towns. happened.

The III. Although the success of the ruling party would not mean a significant change in the political life of the district, since the superiority of the left-liberal side is significant - in the 22-member representative body, together with the mayor, 15 coalition members, six Fidesz-KDNP members and an independent mayor work - but it is even greater would have its political and prestige value.

In 2019, the oppositionist András Iván Hazai easily won here, in constituency number 2 - supported by all five parties except Jobbik - beating Harold Gábor Csapó (Bús Balázs Óbudaért-Fidesz-KDNP) by more than 11 percentage points. Imre Fodor Bálint from Jobbik (3.8 percent) and Gábor Wtulich (for the Opposition Óbuda, 2.89 percent) could not have a say in the battle of the big ones. But in May, Hazai announced that he was resigning from his mandate, so some of the citizens of Óbuda will be forced to go to the polls at the end of the summer.

The fact that the DK politician takes his hat was not an unexpected development, since scandalous cases have already occurred in the opposition arena. Shortly after the 2019 election, the socialist mayor László Kiss - the XVIII. together with his district colleague, Sándor Szaniszló - transferred from the MSZP to the DK, which caused a great stir and serious tensions in the two parts of the city. This also contributed to the fact that in Óbuda the former local president and former deputy mayor Hazai and municipal representative Péter Rózsa László left the DK.

Hazai has stated in several interviews in recent weeks that since they left the Gyurcsány party, they were made impossible and considered enemies, if they dared to criticize something, they only received a sarcastic response and the office workers were forbidden to talk to them. He also complained that no development was started in his constituency, he was even left out of community planning, and after the parliamentary elections he was stripped of his position as a councillor. By the way, the resigned politician's main problem was that his party joined forces with Jobbik, which he said meant the complete abandonment of their principles. On his Facebook page, he stated that he did not want to be a push button in the mayor's representative body.

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Author: Csaba B. Almási

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