Instead of Szeged, instead of Budapest, the swearing-in of the border guards, Viktor Orbán will also be there
Monday afternoon the news appearedthat Viktor Orbán will visit Szeged on Friday morning for the ceremonial swearing-in of border guards. The prime minister’s press chief described the news as a newspaper duck, but it turned out that, according to the plans, Orbán would indeed have visited the city. After a long tug-of-war, the event was finally canceled, and on Wednesday it became clear from the MTI agenda: to hold the event in Budapest instead of Szeged, and on Friday afternoon instead of Friday morning – HVG pointed out.
The new location is the 10th district of Budapest, the headquarters of the Emergency Police on Kerepesi Street. What hasn’t changed: according to the plans, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will give a celebratory speech about the event.
Monday afternoon appeared on Szeged.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, accompanied by Speaker of the House László Kövér and Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér, will visit Szeged on Friday, where he will participate in the ceremonial swearing-in of five hundred border guards. Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister’s press chief, responded to Telex’s inquiry at the time: the news was a “newspaper duck”.
In response to Havasi’s statement, László Botka, the mayor of Szeged, denied to our newspaper on Tuesday that the Prime Minister’s visit to Szeged on Friday would be a dud. The mayor’s office also made public the invitation to the event, which also stated that Viktor Orbán would give a speech.
The managing director of Szegedi Városkép Piac Kft., which publishes events in public spaces affecting the Szeged area, also confirmed that on September 2 they received a report from the competent county police headquarters that on Friday, September 9, from 10 a.m., 500 border hunters would be sworn in at the Ferenc Móra Museum in the front area.
“We will sign the permit to this effect today and send it to the police station. Around 3:30, the police representative verbally inquired with our company that I would like to tell them about the event and how it was going,” wrote Attila Rácz on Tuesday.
Attila Rácz then told Szeged.hu on Wednesday that they had been called by phone from the police in the morning and confirmed that the previous request is irrelevantdoes not hold the event.
It is now certain that the prime minister will not visit Szeged after all, as he will appear in Budapest at noon on Friday, at the rescheduled border hunter opening ceremony.