It can be treated as a fact that Mayor Gergely Karácsony abused the trust placed in him by the people of Budapest. He dealt with our tax forints, using up the 200 billion left over from the previous cycle, and is now keeping our capital city on a ventilator with loans, and because of this fact, he is putting its citizens in debt.

The mayoralty is a profession, and it should primarily have nothing to do with party political commitment. It is necessary to adapt to the needs of the population, with competence, professional knowledge and a well-selected advisory staff.

On the other hand, the reigning mayor, like the former Köztársaság tér party house, turned the City Hall into a meeting place for the opposition parties led by the DK. This is his big mistake, because he did not inherit and own his status. Every forint spent must be accounted for before the June 2024 elections. We have bad news, not only for the people of Budapest, but also for our nation, because the capital belongs to all Hungarians.

We strongly suspect that Mr. Karácsony considered the jewel of our nation, Budapest, to be a cabbage patch.

The people of Budapest are waiting for answers as to why the majority of his advisors, staff, and staff are closely tied to the opposition parties. How could he humiliate his position as mayor by placing his actions under Ferenc Gyurcsány's orders? As a result, he destroyed the cooperation between the government and the capital that showed measurable progress in the previous cycle. For the sake of his own career, he put the change of government in the opposition before the livable maintenance of Budapest.

Data that can be regarded as serious evidence are awaiting investigation by the competent authorities. Capital residents are curious about the results. About the scandal of the sale of the City Hall, the use of dollars and euros that cannot be stuffed into the money chests, the contractual financial anomaly of the renovation of Lánchíd and Blaha Lujza tér.

Gergely Karácsony owes the nation, including the rural and Budapest citizens, an accurate account, and if this proves the suspicion of looting and distribution, let the consequences come. It is not child's play, so we can say in the name of civil courage that our name is worth something and our heads are not cabbages!

The author is the founding president of CÖF-CÖKA

Featured image: Photo: MTI/Zoltán Balogh