Index – Domestic – Tarlós named who really understands Christmas in his office
István Tarlós, According to the former mayor of Budapest Gergely Christmas had a “cultural competition, so to speak” at the handover of the renovated section of Metro 3, but “that doesn’t mean we’d be in big agreement in general”.
According to the former mayor, Gergely Karácsony should always have been on the national political ambitions since the occupation of the mayor’s chair, the city management was completely pushed into the background, there is little expertise in this in the Christmas office. He added: “While the Christmas people complain that the coffers have been emptied, they have not yet provided any real, accurate data on Budapest’s financial situation.”
THE Hungarian Nation In an interview in Wednesday’s issue, István Tarlós said that the current administration of the capital remained over-politicized, and that this was the wrong attitude. There was a lot about the parliamentary elections and their preparations. There have also been negative consequences to the life of the capital being subordinated to this guiding principle, he said. He said appearances were often taken instead of real action, and then Christmas suddenly stepped back in the pre-election, which was met with complete confusion by one-half of the six-party coalition.
As he said, the results, more precisely the lack of them, are tried to be cosmeticized in a way that is difficult to call anything other than “communication charlatanism”. As an example, he mentioned that as one of the mayor’s promises, he had announced that he had declared a climate emergency. “It’s a simple sentence, not a result. What really happened? Nothing, ”he said.
István Tarlós said that it was also possible to read about the renewal of the Szilágyi Erzsébet avenue, from which the unsuspecting reader concludes that this busy main road is being renovated, even though so much has happened that the trees along the road have been cut down. He said nothing had happened about the promise of air-conditioning on Metro 3, even though “what a frivolous performance they had promised — as long as it wasn’t their job, it was their responsibility.”
Just as no response has been made to the imposition of various announced taxes, as was possible in advance, the capital has no way of
He pointed out. He added: they did not add parking in order to centralize it. The case of the main defense of the Csillaghegyi Bay has been completely stopped.
Only one person understood city politics in his Christmas cabinet
According to István Tarlós, what is a conspicuous shortcoming in the current management of the capital, and which cannot be covered even with such refined communication tricks, is the complete relegation of operation to the background.
Deputy Mayor Kata Tüttő is the only one in the current leadership who is more serious about urban management.
According to the former mayor, property other than Kata Tüttő did not really understand the city policy in Christmas’s office. István Tarlós said:
Gergely Karácsony apparently wants the European Union to directly support the capital, but the current ones of the union do not allow this.
Local governments have always applied for smaller projects and moderate resources, but the success of Gergely Karácsony’s new ideas depends to a large extent on how the union’s relations with Hungary develop. Do they want or are they able to help the capital from Brussels in time, with more serious sums, without which its success is difficult to imagine, he said.
Fraud in the EU
The former mayor said: “It is a great disappointment for a union with a disintegrated identity, raging on the ruins of its independence and raping nation-states”. He added that he thought of something completely different before joining. according to the former founders are not even aware of this organization.
Regarding the fact that the mayor, István Tarlós, regularly demands additional resources from the government, the law does not oblige the Cabinet to provide this, at least to the extent of it.
The capital cannot take on its role as if it had to take it from the state coffers as something from a warehouse. For that reason alone, Christmas should not have been so outrageous about its relationship with the government
Said István Tarlós. He added: “It is also the job of a mayor to work with the government to get the city what it knows.”
He said he also had discussions with the government, some of whom were quite spectacular, none of which jeopardized co-operation, and in the end they always managed to agree on the resources needed.
(Cover photo: Former Mayor István Tarlós, Deputy Prime Minister for the Development of National Transport and Public Service Infrastructure and Mayor Gergely Karácsony will speak at the renovated Kálvin tér station on 14 May 2022 before the handover ceremony of the new section of the M3 metro line. )