It is “outrageous” that Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, approved lighting up Chain Bridge in the Ukrainian national colours, “especially with the Ukrainian president having threatened Hungary”, the city assembly’s Fidesz-KDNP group said on Tuesday.
The Fidesz councillors reacted to the Budapest city council approving lighting up Chain Bridge in blue and yellow on Sunday evening to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day.
“What should a respectable city leader do when their own people are threatened and blackmailed by another country? Gergely Karácsony says the answer is that one of our wonderful country’s most iconic bridges and symbols, Chain Bridge, should be lit up in that country’s colours,” Fidesz councillor Béla Radics told a press conference held at the Pest bridgehead of Chain Bridge on Tuesday together with the group’s other members.
“Chain Bridge shouldn’t be blue-yellow, but red, white and green,” Radics said. “Our hearts are red, white and green; we work for every Hungarian,” he said, adding that “if someone attacks and threatens our people, we must stand up for Hungarians, rather than represent Ukrainians.”
He noted that Hungarians have decided not to support fast-tracking Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, which was “understandably a sensitive issue for the Ukrainian president”.
Budapest’s mayor, he said, had a duty to stand up for the interests of Hungarians, adding that he condemned the mayor’s decision to light up Chain Bridge in Ukrainian national colours “on the day that Ukraine threatened our country”. Radics said the mayor’s top priority should be “running the city properly” and standing up for Hungarians rather than Ukrainians.
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Fantastic gesture Budapest City Council. The Fidesz government has been conducting a non-stop campaign of hate against Ukraine for years now. Budapest, however, supports Ukraine at its’ time of need when it is under horrific Russian attack. Shame Radics. It’s Russia you should be condemning.
I hope ukranazis disappear from the face of earth asap
The real “Nazis” are in Moscow running Russia pumping out Kremlin Nazi propaganda to Russians to hate Ukraine (as you do) and hate the West. Orban is guilty of pumping out hatred of Ukraine and everyone who exists West of Hungary. He’s taking Hungary down the hole of a Russian toilet. Hungarians will deserve what they get if they continue with him.