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OTP Bank files report in connection with NAV investigation into financing of Karácsony’s campaign
“All we’re asking Gergely Karácsony is who they got the money from,” the ruling Fidesz party said in a statement.
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State Secretary: Safety bollards “unprofessionally installed” to protect bicycle paths are “dangerous and will cause traffic jams”
Bence Rétvári slammed Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for taking “pseudo-measures” and taking lanes away from vehicular traffic rather than providing new bike paths.
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Budapest Court rejects Mayor's lawsuit over solidarity tax payment
Budapest council is required to pay a solidarity contribution totalling 57.8 billion forints (EUR 154.6m) to poorer localities.
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Fidesz: Budapest Mayor clearly involved in money laundering in 2021
Máté Kocsis insisted that the leftist parties had abandoned the political consensus around campaign financing and “made an alliance with foreign billionaires to go around the rules”.
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Rolling Dollars Scandal: A 52-page document has been declassified and it reveals the Left-Liberal opposition’s deceptions
A 52-page document just declassified by the National Information Center suggests current Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony received more than HUF 500 million of foreign money during his election campaign.
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Budapest assembly votes for investigation into alleged sale of City Hall
The seven-strong committee, headed by Péter Kovács, Fidesz mayor of the 16th district, will present its findings to the assembly at its December meeting.
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Fidesz calls for probe into plans to sell Budapest City Hall
The ruling Fidesz party has called on Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony to order an investigation into reports that the city’s leadership was planning to sell the City Hall building.
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The many paradoxes of little Gergely
It’s hard to refrain from laughing out loud reading Gergely Karácsony’s article in Project Syndicate.
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Survey: Support for Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony has fallen
Magyar Nemzet attributed the fall to Karácsony’s “weak performance as a city leader”.
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Láng: Budapest’s mayor has neglected his duties in the capital
Zsolt Láng said this neglect is evident on the streets of Budapest, with traffic in a state of chaos and public spaces full of rubbish.
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Survey finds opposition prime ministerial candidate unpopular with voters
The Századvég Institute has found that opposition prime ministerial candidate, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, is unpopular with 57 percent of decided voters.
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Nézőpont: 50 percent of Hungarians favor Viktor Orbán as PM candidate
PM Orbán’s support among Hungarian adults continues to hover around 50 percent, with no discernible change due to the mayor’s announcement to run for prime minister.
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State Secretary: Mayor of Budapest proposal to levy “jumpstart” tax on businesses is “inept”
State Secretary András Tállai said the new tax proposal threatens to do extraordinary damage.