Budapest, October 4 (MTI) – Lajos Bokros, the candidate for mayor of Budapest of the conservative Movement for a Modern Hungary (MoMa) in the upcoming local elections, has pressed for investments to improve energy efficiency rather than cuts in utilities prices.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday with Norbert Elo, the Democratic Coalition’s candidate for the mayor of the tenth district, Bokros said that cost-saving developments should be made, rather than investments of poor quality. He said utilities price cuts mandated by governing Fidesz were bad because they give no incentive for energy improvements.
Bokros, a former finance minister whose name is associated with an austerity package in the mid-nineties, is backed by the leftist E-PM and the Democratic Coalition. In an interview published in daily Nepszava on Saturday, Agnes Kunhalmi, the leader of the Budapest chapter of the Socialists, said that if Bokros wins the October 12 local elections, there would be hope for change.
Photo: MTI – Zsolt Szigetvary
