It's all just a matter of perspective: what looks like treason from here can be, say, titillating partisanship when viewed from a good Wall Street armchair.
Two billion forints: that's how much money Gergely Karácsony was able to spend in recent years on his more than forty-strong team of "consultants". After all, this is only twice the amount that the mayor spends annually on the implementation of the ideas of Budapest residents under the title "community budget".
In addition, this amount of money is almost half of the 5.6 billion that the Hungarian State Treasury collected from the capital's account due to the refusal to pay the solidarity tax.
But it was definitely worth asking for a lot of advice from the selected company, one of whose members is chief legal advisor Csaba Tordai.
Who, by the way, may be the key figure in the half-billion "micro-donation" crime of the Karácsony movement.
If, by the way, Tordai gave general legal advice on how to play tricks with the collection, then at least a tock would come out to him by Christmas, because the "micro-donors" didn't even bother to put brand new, serially numbered and stuck together bundles of euros in the collection boxes. Or to put at least one wretched crate somewhere.
But that should be Kari Geri's problem.
Another advisor was Kálmán. That is, Olga. It doesn't matter, since after she sat in the parliament last year, as a respectable mother-in-law, she can no longer hand out municipal councils for a thousand a month.
It is a question whether he has done more fruitful work as a chief cultural advisor (cf.: the state of cultural life in the capital and the degradation of the József Katona Theater into a DK party theater) or in the Tisztelt Ház, where he delivers speeches with the ease of a manatee lying on the savannah, for example, about how nowadays you can grill.
And then we didn't even talk about Dávid Korányi, the former city diplomatic advisor, whose task was practically to maximize the American influence in the 2022 election.
It's all just a matter of perspective: what looks like treason from here can be, say, titillating partisanship when viewed from a good Wall Street armchair. Alex Soros would certainly be happy if Karácsony was revived next year.
Cover image: Gergely Karácsony could work with his consultants instead of self-promotion
Source: Facebook/Gergely Kárácsony
