Alexandra Szentkirályi, the leader of Fidesz's Budapest chapter, said on Tuesday that Budapest citizens, and Hungarians in general, have a right to know when "foreign individuals want to have certain positions and values represented for money".
Szentkirályi told public current affairs channel M1 that Fidesz is submitting a proposal to the Budapest Assembly on Wednesday, "to see which organizations of that kind the municipality has ties with". "According to the regulations, we are calling on the mayor to disclose which NGOs ... in that network of political corruption the municipality has ties with."
She cited Transparency International, "which is on the USAID payment list", as an example. The NGO had reported it had found no irregularities during the renovation of Budapest's Chain Bridge, which she said had been mired in "a scandal" concerning irregular payments.
"Members of this network of political corruption", she insisted, had also participated in drafting the municipality's "pro-drugs strategy".
Szentkirályi said that if the city assembly rejects the proposal, she hoped to "receive a list from the US on the organisations the municipality cooperated with".
"I think it would be fairer and more effective if [the mayor] openly disclosed the organisations in question," she added.
Meanwhile, Szentkirályi welcomed plans to increase college dorm places to a greater extent than originally expected, adding that such a step would be a "tangible response to housing problems" in the capital.