Mayoral candidate outlines plans to continue rehabilitating Budapest’s 8th district

Botond Sára, the current deputy mayor of Budapest‘s 8th district who is a Fidesz candidate to head the district parts of which are blighted by poverty and homelessness, has addressed opposition charges that he would move to evict thousands of local residents.

In an interview on Friday to television current affairs channel M1, the politician insisted that only squatters, residents who steal electricity and gas and otherwise ruin their living environment would be kicked out, while indebted households who are struggling with bills will continue to be given numerous opportunities to settle them during the years-long eviction procedure.

Sára said he would continue the local rehabilitation scheme involving revamping Blaha Lujza Square and the Orczy Quarter.

It is important, he added, that the next mayor should maintain a good relationship with parliament and the government.