Szentkiralyi told public current affairs channel M1 that Fidesz is submitting a proposal to the Budapest Assembly on Wednesday, "to see which organisations 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".

Szentkiralyi 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, Szentkiralyi 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.


Meanwhile, Tisza leader: Orban 'driving country to bankruptcy'

Peter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Viktor Orban "is driving the country to bankruptcy".

Magyar accused Orban of "lying about growth" and making false claims about falling inflation. "He has actually caused an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and inflation," he said, dismissing Orban's insistence that Hungary awaited a "fantastic year ahead".

"The performance of the Hungarian industry and agriculture is deteriorating, investments are at a record low, the public debt and deficit are skyrocketing and inflation is galloping again," Magyar said in a statement.

He accused Orban of "plundering" the people, companies "and even the smallest municipalities". Hospitals and kindergartens outside Budapest were being dismantled, he said, while post offices and railway branch lines were being shuttered.

"It is clear by now that if Orban and company sticks around, they will push [Hungary] into insolvency and bankruptcy," he said.

He insisted that "despite recent promises, Orban's real plan is to take back everything twice over, to privatise the state-funded health-care system and to burden the futures of our children and grandchildren with debt."

"The tired, burnt-out mafia boss can only make promises now, and ... is trying to set Hungarians against Hungarians. Orban knows that the System of Joint National Criminality is at an end but ... they will still steal whatever they can: railway stations, castles and the future of Hungarians," he said.

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

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