Hungarian green opposition party supports PM Orbán’s relative for Budapest’s mayor
Opposition LMP has voiced its support for a run for Budapest mayor by Dávid Vitézy, a former state secretary for transport, saying his election would “free Budapest from its intellectual civil war”.
Máté Kanász-Nagy, the party’s deputy group leader, told a press conference on Saturday that over the past years, Budapest had become a “political battleground”, adding that the identities of the two mayoral candidates — incumbent mayor Gergely Karacsony and government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkiralyi — “fuel these battles”.
He said that by nominating Szentkiralyi as its mayoral candidate, ruling Fidesz “has made it clear that it wants Budapest to be the government’s mouthpiece”, insisting that if elected, Szentkiralyi “would do what the prime minister tells her”.
Kanász-Nagy also said that at his commemoration of the national holiday on Friday, Karácsony “looked like he wants to be the leader of the opposition, a prime ministerial candidate again”.
He said the municipal elections were about deciding who should be entrusted with managing Budapest’s affairs and making the city better.
“LMP wants to free Budapest from this intellectual civil war,” Kanász-Nagy said, adding they believed the solution was electing “a third way candidate” in the form of David Vitézy.
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Having lived in San Francisco, once one of the worlds most beautiful cities- in less than 10 years of left wing gov. Is now shit hole. Major streets have lost most of business. The same thing could happen here. Seattle and Portland once one of the best places to live. Did I mention SF is one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Tm, or MVT, whatever moniker you choose, I also lived in SF for many years. It has been one of the most expensive cities in the world for at least 30 years. It was also dirty and messy back then(not gonna stoop to your choice of Trumpian description of the place). Keep on topic, the article is about Budapest. Why do you always deflect to some QAnon criticism of the West when the topic is about Hungary?