Index – Domestic – Balázs Fürjes: Hungary is not successful without a successful Budapest
Balázs Fürjes returned to the Ludovika building, where he attended the Zoltán Magyary Vocational College for students, that his father, Sándor Fürjes, graduated from the last grade of Ludovika in August 1944 and organized a resistance movement with his political grandfather to save Jews.
They were arrested for treason, his father in Ludovika. He was asked to be sentenced to death for treason at a static court-martial, but this would have required a unanimous decision, and one in three judges voted against it. It was a vote that I was here
Said Fürjes, who then spoke about the beginning of his political career.
For a long time, he didn’t think he would be a “city-builder” government man because he considered himself technically illiterate.
It is not a good direction when anyone thinks about the liberation of Budapest. I am extremely pro-Budapest
– said Fürjes, who feels it is artificial to contrast Budapest and the countryside, and he does not agree with János Lázár and György Matolcsy that the weight of the capital should be reduced.
This is the only Hungarian city in the world. If we cut it apart, we can make it happen that there is none
Said the Fidesz politician who is running for a parliamentary mandate in the Highlands.
Successful Budapest = successful Hungary
According to him, there is no successful Hungary without a successful Budapest, it considers the capital to be a common denominator that can connect people with different political views. The operation and development of Budapest is the task of the current government and city management. The Secretary of State has always developed Budapest to a much greater extent than the incumbent city administration, but that is fine, as it has more resources. Quail, of course, disagrees with the current city government on many things, but in a democracy, he thinks debates are natural.
The Fidesz politician considers it an important starting point not to question the decision of the voters, it must be accepted that the people of Budapest chose this city administration.
Therefore, Gergely Karácsony would never call Mayor unfit, according to him, at most the voters can judge him that way.
The Christmas people want to give the impression that there is a vulnerable small municipality and a government there that is building a behemoth, an ugly dictatorship. This, in their view, creates sympathy and an excuse for action
– remarked Balázs Fürjes, who said that the Budapest Public Development Council was a good example of cooperation, which was still fought for by István Tarlós. The government and the capital have five representatives each on the board, and it should only be decided if a vote, as well as what the mayor asks, should be put on the agenda.
It’s not the degree that makes a man
So far, Balázs Fürjes has not spoken about the diploma case of his momentary opponent, Miklós Hajnal. The Secretary of State talks about giving respect to all of his challengers, but he is more concerned with the challenges in Buda and his own commitments than with his opponents. He was successful in his university admission twice, the politician took the time to prepare, and then examined the faculty.
It is important to be self-identical and not tell yourself to be different from who we are. It’s okay if someone doesn’t have a degree, we just assume who we are. It’s not the degree that makes a man
Said the Secretary of State. He also mentioned that he was very happy to debate.
Budapest is a descendant of the family, and the essence of the big city is diversity. Metropolitan politicking is a café genre. If Márton Gulyás wants to corner you at Partizán, I have to be prepared, I need arguments. If it doesn’t exist, you’ve found it easy
He remarked, adding that if a person speaks to people who agree with him in everything, his vision will not widen. The Secretary of State has so far found that there are “no cannibals” in government-critical editorial offices, but fair, decent journalists with whom they give each other respect.
He does not consider himself a “pigeon between the shells”, if necessary, he enters into the conflict, but he does not want to argue unnecessarily, he seeks cooperation and thinks this quality as a factor of competitiveness.
It cannot be common for motorists
The secretary of state agrees with the traffic calming effort, but says it can’t be general for motorists, can’t ban cars from downtown, and can’t help the city by spilling a liter of yellow paint, he referred to bike lanes. according to the transport of Budapest, it cannot be interpreted on its own: from Pusztaszabolcs to Vác, from Székesfehérvár to Hatvan we have to think, because
four million people commute between the capital and the countryside several times a week, and one million people drive from the outskirts of the city to the heart of the city.
The number of ten cars in not a year the total number of cars increased in the agglomeration. That is why we are developing fixed-track transport, all the more so because more than two-thirds of rail traffic takes place between Budapest and the agglomeration, he said.
We have been in government for 12 years and we are not perfect, we have debts.
– He said this about the lack of a uniform Pest County pass. He called it impossible that multiple tickets and passes are still needed for public transport in the central region today. As he said, the government’s capital goals are:
- four trains per hour from each agglomeration to Budapest,
- each line to reach three different metro networks,
- the better railway will attract twice as much traffic as the current one,
- a single tariff and ticketing system.
Regarding the increase of the green area, Fürjes finally said that today in Budapest there would be 6 square meters of green area per inhabitant, while the ideal would be 9. That is why a public park would be created in North Csepel and that is why Városmajor would be developed.
(across, 24.hu)
(Cover image: Balázs Fürjes. Photo: Tamás Kaszás / Index)