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Daily News Daily News · 18/11/2018
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PM Orbán, Mayor Tarlós sign pact on Budapest cooperation

Budapest Budapest council development Liget Budapest Metro line 3 upgrade Viktor Orbán
PM ORbán Mayor Tarlós

Budapest, 2018. november 17. A Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda által közzétett képen Orbán Viktor miniszterelnök (b) és Tarlós István, a harmadik ciklusára készülõ fõpolgármester aláírja a fõváros és a kormány együttmûködésérõl szóló, 15 pontból álló megállapodást a fõváros napján, Budapest egyesítésének 145. évfordulója alkalmából tartott ünnepség elõtt az Újvárosházán 2018. november 17-én. MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Szecsõdi Balázs

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Budapest Mayor István Tarlós on Saturday signed a pact on cooperation between the government and capital city.

A key provision of the pact is the establishment of the Budapest Municipal Development Council to be jointly headed by the PM and mayor.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 145th anniversary of Budapest’s unification, Tarlós said

the agreement would “drive forward Budapest’s sources of funding”.

He insisted that Budapest’s elected mayor and the relevant public bodies would have an influence on the development of the capital “more significant than at any time in the past seventy years”.

“Budapest … is part of Hungarian nation-building and is one of its important achievements,” he said.

Meanwhile, Tarlós and Deputy Mayor Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky handed out prizes for public service and outstanding sporting achievements at the ceremony.

The Pro Urbe Budapest Award was went to Sándor Deák, Deputy Director General of the Budapest Szabó Ervin Library, actress Enikő Eszenyi director of the Vígszínház, József Halzl, honorary chairman of the Rákóczi Association and Attila Vidnyánszky, director of the National Theatre, among others.

Orbán said Budapest stood at the gates of great progress and the next decade would be the most successful in the city’s history. By 2030, Budapest will be among Europe’s most liveable cities and one of its safest, he said at the ceremony marking Budapest Day. Noting the agreement regarding the Budapest Municipal Development Council, he said joint work would have to be carried out with grit and determination.

The prime minister noted the completion of various flagship projects in the capital such as the 4th metro line, the renovation of the Museum of Fine Arts, and sports-related developments such as the Danube Arena and new stadiums.

He also mentioned ongoing reconstruction of the City Park, the Opera House, the Museum of Applied Arts and the refurbishment of Metro 3.

The council will soon have to make a decision regarding construction of a new modern pentathlon centre and the restoration of historic buildings in the Buda Castle, Orbán said. Also, construction of the new South-Buda central hospital will begin, he added.

“It is a huge task we are undertaking,” Orbán said, referring to developments planned up to 2030. “Budapest must radiate dignity, pride and greatness,” he added.

Referring to the new arrangements, the green opposition LMP party said Budapest was being put under “guardianship” of the prime minister. LMP lawmaker József Gál told a news conference that

the development council was a way of depriving the Budapest Metropolitan Assembly and the city’s inhabitants of their right to decide what kind of city they wanted to live in. It would be better, he said, if people were asked about their desired direction of developments.

The opposition Socialist Party’s Csaba Horváth told journalists that Tarlós would be nothing more than a puppet. He censured the mayor for stating his unqualified support for Fidesz even if the government did not comply with the agreement. He said Budapest needed a genuine cooperation agreement to guarantee that the 20 billion forints Budapest taxpayers pay each day into the city’s coffers would finance public utilities in the capital in a proportionate way.

Source: MTI

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