Local Elections – PM Co-Leader Karacsony Praises Left’s Budapest Campaign

(MTI) – Gergely Karacsony, the co-chair of the leftist PM opposition party, has praised the programme announced by the candidate of the leftist parties for Budapest mayor in the upcoming municipal elections.

In his programme announced on Friday, Ferenc Falus highlighted safety, innovation, and accountability as the main features of his electoral programme.

The campaign of Falus has taken “a positive turn” and he has recently been a lot more successful in campaigning and reaching out to the public, Karacsony, a mayoral candidate for Budapest’s Zuglo district, told a press conference on Sunday.

Concerning Budapest’s central-northern Zuglo, Karacsony said his party was working for a central-left victory in the district in the Oct. 12 elections. It stands the best chance because it offers a solid alternative to the past four years of Fidesz rule, he added.

The era of the district’s incumbent Fidesz mayor and deputy mayor, Ferenc Papcsak and Zoltan Rozgonyi, has “left for us a poisonous legacy” in a number of areas of which Karacsony mentioned public safety as a major concern. He noted criminal statistics showing that the number of registered crimes had gone up by one and a half times over the past four years.

Karacsony said his party has drafted a comprehensive programme to improve public safety that includes providing service apartments to police officers free of charge who move to the district and stand at the disposal of local residents any time.

Photo: MTI – Zoltan Mathe

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