The political program outlined by the opposition led by Gergely Karácsony for the capital's voters did not meet the expectations, even despite the fact that the opposition was in the majority in the capital's general assembly, junior constitutional lawyer Zoltán Lomnici told Magyar Hírlap after another victory for Fidesz, which Csilla Fazekas won in the 1st district.
voted 50.86 percent ( István Tarlós for Gergely Karácsony as mayor, and on the other hand, he won the elections in only seven places in the capital's 22 districts the bourgeois right, as a result of which an opposition majority was formed in the capital assembly (opposition 18, FIDESZ–KDNP 13, Independent 2), said Zoltán Lomnici Ifjabb . Since the parliamentary elections in April 2022, this is the seventh opposition defeat in the by-elections in the capital, against an opposition victory in Újpest, he pointed out.
Based on the above, the question can also be approached from the point of view of the fact that the vote of confidence in Mayor Gergely Karácsony and the opposition representatives who spoke with him in 2019 seems to be significantly decreasing - continued Zoltán Lomnici junior. He pointed out that the political program outlined for the citizens of Budapest by the opposition led by Gergely Karácsony did not fulfill the hopes attached to it, even despite the fact that the opposition was in the majority in the capital assembly. He pointed out that the government tried to support the functioning of Budapest, but the capital's leadership did not take measures that resulted in a significant improvement in the lives of the voters, and the green program of the capital's leadership backfired due to the constant traffic jams since then. He added that the capital city administration would like these (congestion charges) or regulate them (establishment of parking zones) within the framework of taxes.
He emphasized that, since the 2019 local government elections and the 2022 parliamentary elections, the civil right and the opposition leadership in the capital have been able to offer a credible and effective alternative to the Hungarian electorate, despite the crises that have arisen since then - caused by covid and energy shortages - which is mostly due to the This is supported by the 2022 parliamentary election results and the results of the interim elections cited above. For the sake of clarity, it is necessary to state that if the civil right could not put a credible and effective alternative on the table of the problems, then the above results would not occur, but the opposite of them, he noted.
The conclusion can be drawn from the above that, on the one hand, the opposition leadership in the capital seems to be on the wane, and on the other hand, in the absence of measures resulting in an improvement in the lives of the capital's voters, that is, in the absence of an increase in voter confidence in the opposition, further opposition defeats are likely, said the constitutional lawyer.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
