Does Budapest mayor Karácsony want to ban cars older than 10 years out of Budapest?
On Thursday, Alexandra Szentkirályi, Fidesz’s candidate for mayor in Budapest, wrote on her social media page that Mayor Gergely Karácsony and the new head of the Climate Agency, Ada Ámon, would ban cars older than ten years from the streets of Budapest. Karácsony reacted to the claim and responded to questions on Facebook.
Does Karácsony really want to ban older cars out of Budapest?
According to Szentkirályi, the head of the Climate Agency spoke in a podcast about the feasibility of banning cars over ten years old from Budapest, thus helping to create zero-emission zones, Index writes.
In a video published on her Facebook page on Thursday, Alexandra Szentkirályi said that according to the Ministry of Interior, there are currently 440,000 cars older than ten years on the streets of the capital. That is 61 percent of all cars in Budapest.
In a comment on his social media page, Gergely Karácsony was asked, “what is true out of this?”. The major provided a short but to-the-point answer:
Nothing.
The head of the Climate Agency also responded to Szentkirályi’s comments. According to Ada Ámon, she never said what Szentkirályi claims, and assessed the video of the candidate for mayor as the latest product of Fidesz propaganda.
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