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Szentkirályi: New Budapest assembly established today
The Fidesz group is submitting eight proposals which include a motion to stop decisions being made solely by the mayor on his own authority.
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Budapest Mayor asks court for repeat election
Gergely Karácsony won the June 9 election by just 41 votes after a recount at the request of his closest rival, Dávid Vitézy.
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Vitézy: Mayor vote recount was “meticulous” and “justified”
In the local election, Gergely Karácsony garnered 371,466 votes and Dávid Vitézy 371,142.
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PM Orbán: Real sin of Budapest’s mayor was that he presided over “so many missed opportunities”
The prime minister said that Fidesz’s Budapest operations, alongside the central government, must strive to get the most out of the nation’s capital.
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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”.