Despite Orbán cabinet’s ban, Mayor Karácsony promises to hold Pride 2025
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This year’s Budapest Pride march will go ahead as planned “and will be the biggest one yet”, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said on Facebook late on Wednesday.
“As the mayor of the 14th district, I was the first to hang the rainbow flag on a public building,” Karácsony said. “Since I’ve been mayor of Budapest, the rainbow flag has been displayed on City Hall every year, and this practice will continue even if the government prohibits it. And since I’ve been mayor, the metropolitan council has helped out with organising Budapest Pride each year and will continue to help even if the government prohibits it.”
Karácsony said he was convinced that “the city belongs to everyone” and that “we can only be free if we are all free.”
First installment of Rákosrendező purchase price set to be transferred Thursday
The first installment of the Rakosrendezo development area is expected to be transferred on Thursday after technical consultations with the Hungarian National Asset Management Company (MNV) are concluded, the director general of the mayor’s office has said.
Consultations with MNV began early last week, and the mayor’s office hopes to clonclude them on Thursday, Ambrus Kiss told a press event on Wednesday. The office believes everything will then be in place for the first installment of the purchase price to be transferred that day, he said, adding that this would allow utilities company BKM to register its ownership of the area.
Talks will continue with state-owned railway company MAV and the construction and transportation ministry, he said, adding that this included the acquisition of the property and a development agreement. BKM must sign a contract with MAV on regulating the use of areas for rolling stock, he noted. Kiss also said that under the metropolitan assembly’s most recent decision, city councillors are set to discuss a tender for a development plan in June.
If only Karacsony was as quick and as keen to fly the flag of Hungary.
But no.
Furthering the agenda–and that is what they are, for gay etc. “pride” marches are totally unnecessary in 2025–and woefully mismanaging public finances is what he, and his “opposition” fellow travelers, are all about.
Ah, Mr Steiner, not so. Orbán Viktor has this week, with his attempt to ban them, made it abundantly clear that gay, etc., “pride” marches are totally NECESSARY in 2025.