The case of the Fudan referendum finally failed, as Mayor Gergely Karácsony, one of the initiators of the referendum, withdrew his support, leaving Krisztina Baranyi alone. However, the mayor of Ferencváros still wants to have a local referendum on the issue.
The capital backed away from the Fudan referendum, even though Gergely Karácsony said after the decision of the Constitutional Court in May that their job now is to find a way so that at least the people of Budapest can express their opinion on Fudan University and the job search allowance, he wrote and the People's Voice.
Shortly after the parliamentary elections, the Constitutional Court decided that a national referendum could not be held in the case of Fudan University, as it would affect the international treaty. Krisztina Baranyi then came up with the idea that a local referendum on the issue would be organized in Budapest and Ferencváros.
When asked by the newspaper, Baranyi commented on the capital's decision as follows:
"I get very vague answers to my questions about this. The most honest version seems to be that the initiative would not even pass the Capital Assembly, as the Democratic Coalition would not support it".
As Magyar Nemzet wrote earlier: according to a June decision of the representative body of the Ferencváros municipality, in the future, instead of the previous 15 percent, ten percent of the population can initiate a local referendum in the IX. district. According to the law, a local referendum can be initiated by the number of voters specified in the local government decree, which cannot be less than ten percent of the voters and cannot be more than twenty-five percent of the voters. The IX. the district municipality therefore facilitated local initiatives as much as possible.
the entire article in Magyar Nemzet .
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