Csaba Horváth, the socialist mayor of Zugló, is running a successful campaign in the municipal newspaper and on posters in public spaces. "We promised! We did it!” - he tells the voters. According to the president of the CivilZugló Association, "Csaba Horváth has started a promotion campaign". Momentum also nominated a mayoral candidate, but Horváth abstained from the primary election. Moreover, he called his opposition challenger, the momentous András Rózsa, an agent of Fidesz.

"On Saturday morning, I approached Csaba Horváth, the MSZP mayor of Zugló, in the market. I told him that many opposition voters are worried that there are two more candidates in Zugló. I asked him if he would be open to a primary. In response, I received baseless and condescending accusations. Instead of arguments, Csaba Horváth simply acted as a Fidesz agent. I refuse this on behalf of Momentum”

- wrote András Rózsa, Zugló's temporary deputy mayor, on his social media page. Rózsa resigned from her post in December because she announced that she intends to fight for the mayorship in the local government elections in Zugló.

According to local government representative László Várnai, president of the CivilZugló Association

the opposition with Csaba Horváth can expect a sure fall, because the majority of the population is dissatisfied with the work of the mayor.

He told Magyar Hírlap that

Horváth did not fulfill any of his election promises. On the other hand, he now brags about the results he has achieved with false data and half-truths, using his own portrait on posters in public areas with public funds.

For example, with the renovation of Nagy Lajos király út, of which two hundred meters of its four kilometers were asphalted, only half of Róna utca was repaired, but anyone who stumbles on the section between Kerepesi and Egressy will see stars from the shaking of the car and the potholes. Moreover

these road renovations were carried out and paid for by the Metropolitan Municipality and not by the Zugló Municipality, so the mayor is using a different pen

he thought.

The capital also expanded the cycle paths in Zugló, on Róna and Vezér úts, and the Zugló Local Government did not spend a single forint on the cycle path network in Zugló during the cycle, added Várnai. And the "unpaved dirt roads" actually mean Kerékgyártó Street, only a fifth of it, a 150-meter section, the rest of the dirt roads remain as they were before, the representative emphasized.

Not a single one of the more than a hundred municipal apartment buildings has been renovated, not a single playground has been built, not a single public park has been put in order, the condition of the green areas is deteriorating, the parks are unkempt and dirty.

The mayor's promises in 2019 included the construction of the Zugló City Center, the creation of the Zugló Millenáris Cultural Center and its own theater, making Örs vezér tér barrier-free, a social rental housing program, free CT and MR examinations, and reducing ambient noise. Well, according to Várnai, none of these in the world came true, but Csaba Horváth introduced the garage tax despite huge protests.

Csaba Horváth, who is currently taking a photo with Gergelly Karácsony on his own page, was the biggest mentor and advertiser of the primary election in the 2019 campaign. For example, he told Népszava: "We don't want to announce a party membership contest, since the MSZP would win in any case, which would be neither fair nor acceptable for the partners. Those voters who, due to their left-wing or democratic commitment, would currently cast their vote for an opposition politician, representative, or mayor or municipal representative, have to decide."

Reader comments on Csaba Horváth's report:

We live here... Not like the mayor.

If the people of Zugló have any sense, they will no longer vote for this person!

I wouldn't flash it. Half Zugló is such that the holes fall out of my ears. Mogyoródi, Róna, King Lajos Nagy, Fogarasi are all sheer vomit.

Where is the upward development here? Does the mayor have a picture to describe this? This district has never been in such bad condition! It's a shame that after 4 years of doing nothing, you are trying to manipulate the voters of the district like this!

Yay! The shame of Lajos Zugló the Great!

Let's be precise, because only part of Róna utca was renovated.

What dirt roads? From Tihamér utca to Egressy tér, on the right side of Nagy Lajos király út, there is no asphalted or even paved sidewalk. We will ask for monument protection for the garbage of demolished buildings that has been there for months, now some people see the no-man's land near Lidl as a garbage dump.

Dirt eats the perimeter.

Free parking for 1.5 hours! Where?

Even what you asked is not true!

It will be short. Get out of here.

In our opinion, don't continue anything, it's over!

The Hermina út lab has ceased to exist, what are you talking about?

The Örs vezér tér specialist clinic is somehow always left out of the renovation, even though it would be really important.

Source: Magyar Hírlap

Cover photo: Gergely Karácsony and Csaba Horváth / Photo: MTI/Zoltán Máthé