Several ministries could also be relocated to other cities from Budapest, she said after the first session of the new government.
 
 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán asked Defence Minister Csaba Hende to assess the possibility of moving his ministry to western Hungary’s Székesfehérvár before March 15, 2016, while the agricultural ministry could be relocated to Debrecen in the east. Orbán also suggested that the rural development secretariat within the PM’s Office could move to Kecskemét in the southeast, before the end of 2014.
 
 The opposition Socialists said that plans to move some of the ministries to other cities were motivated by an intention to make Budapest “weightless”. 
 
Csaba Horváth, Socialist candidate for mayor of Budapest, said that such a move would be equal to “slapping Budapest residents in the face” and eliminating a “historical tradition” in which the capital emerged as the centre of Hungary’s administration through a century- long process.
 
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