Majority of Hungarians want referendum on 2024 Olympic bid
Budapest, September 19 (MTI) – Only 46 percent of Hungarians back Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics while 51 percent want to have the opportunity to vote on the matter in a referendum, according to a survey by Ipsos commissioned by the opposition Egyutt party published in Saturday’s Nepszabadsag daily.
The paper noted that in Ipsos’s February survey 60 percent supported the idea of Budapest’s bid. According to a survey by the Nezopont Institute carried out in August, 49 percent backed organising the event while 42 percent were opposed, the paper added.
The latest Ipsos survey with a sample of 1,000 found that besides 41 percent who opposed hosting the event, 13 percent were neutral.
The Hungarian Olympic Committee is eyeing carefully which bidding city’s population supports its bid the most and the Hungarian committee is also preparing to carry out its own survey, the paper said.
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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Ludicrous for Hungary to bid. First they will spend a fortune on assembling the bid (with obvious opportunities for corruption) along the way. Second it is more than likely the bid will fail so the money is wasted.
If by any miracle it was successful then the country will spend a fortune it does not have (plus of course the obligatory corruption) and will then have a massive white elephant of sports complexes which will be underused and eventually the maintenance costs will result in their closure and abandonment.
Stupid idea.