He also plans open tenders for all board and director positions, with a focus on transparency and qualifications, aiming for at least one-third female representation.

The mayor stated he is generally satisfied with the current CEOs but believes it is important to see whether better candidates are available, urging the CEOs to reapply for their positions.

This is a fundamental change from the prevailing practice that ran on for a decade, HVG writes, as until now the company positions were distributed on the basis of power relations in the city council. Parties delegated people based on loyalty rather than expertise to positions with monthly salaries of hundreds of thousands of forints.

Now, due to changes in election rules passed by Fidesz in Parliament and the rise of Péter Magyar and his party, Karácsony will lose the mostly supportive and comfortable majority on city council that he has enjoyed for the past five years, forcing him to make new and basic changes, HVG observes.

Karácsony was not happy with this tradition, according to HVG, but in many cases it guaranteed the loyalty or votes of the political majority behind him.

Péter Magyar, who alongside Fidesz has ten city councillors, said “If I understand it well, a party membership card was so far sufficient instead of proficiency”.

Magyar said Karácsony secretly notified the Democratic Coalition-Socialist alliance to prepare and get their people to submit bids for available positions.

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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