Orbán cabinet: Referendum on Fudan University should be held after general election
The government backs the idea of consulting Budapest residents in a referendum on whether they want Fudan University to be located in the capital once the facts related to the investment are fully known, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff said in an interview to media outlet Mandiner on Sunday.
Asked whether or not a Fudan University campus will be built in Budapest, Gulyás said the investment was not at a stage suitable for public debate.
Once the plans and financial terms are clear in around 18 months’ time, then a public debate should take place, he added.
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Responding the opposition’s claim that Fudan University was proof of the government’s commitment to the East in preference to the West, Gulyás said that as a NATO and EU member Hungary need not make declarations of allegiance to the West.
“Despite ongoing disputes, they are our allies,” he said, adding that whereas Hungary formed part of the Western system of alliances it also sought equable relations with the world’s major powers, including China and Russia.
Meanwhile, commenting on the opposition’s primaries, Gulyás insisted that the leader of the leftist Democratic Coalition, Ferenc Gyurcsány “and his people”, were busy in the background striking deals as to who the candidate for prime minister and many individual constituency candidates should be. He said that if the opposition prevailed in the 2022 general election, Gergely Karácsony, the current mayor of Budapest, would likely end up being the premier and Gyurcsány’s wife, Klara Dobrev, would be his deputy.
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Source: MTI
The “muted” idea, to conduct a Referendum, on the “terms and conditions” that the present Government of Hungary are “suggesting” on this “doomed” project, of the building and the establishment of Fudan University, in Budapest – is Fraught with Dangerous consequences in it’s outcome and result.
It would permit – Manipulation – by the present Government – to “stack” district’s of Budapest – comprising in total 23 – by preference – golden hand shakes and “favors”.
This “proposed” referendum, under the present Government, would DISMALLY fail to be held and conducted – under the clear lines of DEMOCRACY.
It is time to stop the proposed Chinese University. The government should publish its reasons why it deemed the project beneficial. At the end it should just mention that since the people do not want a Chinese University, and the government is there to serve the people, the government will scratch the project. The End.