It stems from the mayor's character, which can be compared to an amoeba, that he can play the person who wasn't even there in any situation.
Gergely Karácsony has been trying to lead the capital for four years now, mostly with little success. Still, there is no real alternative to Karácsony on the left for the candidate for mayor.
The reason for this is that a kind of symbiosis has developed between Karácsony and Gyurcsány over the years, but rather over decades, despite the occasional break in appearances and smiles. It stems from the smooth nature of Christmas that it can be sold better than other gyurcsányists, which have been debased to the extremes of old. A communist with a human face, as they say.
And what clearly emerges from the mayor's political career is that, no matter how much he apparently criticized Gyurcsány several times, he always returned to him from time to time. In fact, it can be stated that Karácsony has already betrayed everyone else in his political career, not just Gyurcsány.
Let's take it one by one.
Karácsony began his political career in the Prime Minister's Office of the Gyurcsány government, at the Political State Secretariat Responsible for Coalition Coordination, where his boss was Gábor Horn of the SZDSZ, then State Secretary. He was cheesy for a long time, which is why Karácsony deleted from his resumes the fact that he received more than HUF 21 million commissions from the Gyurcsány government through his family company, SOCIAL REPORT BT., between 2006 and 2010. At the same time, he was research director at the Median Institute for Public Opinion and Market Research, which was best filled by the Gyurcsány government.
In 2009, he apparently turned against his former breadwinner and joined the promising LMP, then led by András Schiffer, became a member of parliament and seemed to identify with its anti-Gyurcsány policy.
Of course, this was just an appearance. Karácsony immersed himself in this role so much that in 2012 he hypocritically declared that "I hate the Socialists more than Fidesz".
Then he also betrayed András Schiffer, who had provided him with a way out, and left the party in 2013 to become a member of Bajnai's Együtt 2014. When it turned out that there was no collaboration without Gyurcsány, he even said that "I don't deny that I had to drink a few Unicums today to cope with the situation, I don't like how it turned out, but it is what it is."
Of course, he just put up with it somehow. In fact, in the 2014 local government campaign in Zugló, it already started together with the DK.
Karácsony's character, which can be compared to an amoeba, stems from the fact that he can play the person who wasn't even there in any situation. He did this several times during this period. And for example, he criticized his former boss and stated that "Gyurcsány has political responsibility for the events of 2006, and the fact that the situation on the left is like this now is largely his responsibility."
We cannot disagree with this, but the only beauty flaw in Karácsony's life is that he himself, in the heat of the chancellery, smoothed over the police attack of the Gyurcsánys in 2006 and then the economic ruin of the country.
After all, criticism here, criticism there, but in October 2017, the MSZP at the time removed László Botka from his prime ministerial candidate status precisely because Karácsony - unlike Botka - was willing to add Ferenc Gyurcsány to the list of alliances. At that time, he was no longer talking about Unicum, but about the fact that "in his opinion, there is no sense in an alliance that does not include Gyurcsány and the DK."
And in 2019, he became mayor as the leader of a coalition in which Ferenc Gyurcsány and the Democratic Coalition were an essential part. So much so that he placed dozens of old left-wing government members in key positions at the City Hall. It is unlikely that it is voluntary and sung.
In any case, this is how Zoltán Gál J., Tibor Draskovics, Erzsébet Gy. Németh, István Kolber, Tamás Katona, Gábor Nemes, Zoltán Szabó, or even Csaba Tordai and Imre Mártha found themselves in this situation.
In other words, Karácsony would not be able to exist without Gyurcsány and his people, he is completely dependent on them, which the former prime minister abuses unabashedly. Gyurcsány planted his people in the coffers of the capital, but this was not enough.
From time to time, the fallen prime minister intervenes in the capital's political issues, for example in the relationship between the capital and the government. This happened last time, in April this year, when Ferenc Gyurcsány sent a message to the mayor from Spirit FM. He said that he was dissatisfied with Kárácson, and also explained how he would imagine the relationship between the capital and the government. According to him, it would be Karácsony's "patriotic obligation" to "go to the government with thousands". And he started building a DK alternative.
Karácsony then tried to get tough with the government, which is why he received the red point from Gyurcsány. For example, the former prime minister defended him during the indefensible 500 million scandal and talked about the possibility that he would be the only one to support Gergely Karácsony's candidacy next year.
From time to time, Karácsony returns to his political mentor, Ferenc Gyurcsány, who started him on the field. He cannot exist without it.
