'Outrageous' that Budapest's Chain Bridge Lit Up in Ukrainian Colours, Claims Fidesz
- 27 Aug 2025 8:39 AM
It is "outrageous" that Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, approved lighting up Chain Bridge in the Ukrainian national colours, "especially with the Ukrainian president having threatened Hungary", the city assembly’s Fidesz-KDNP group said.
The Fidesz councillors reacted to the Budapest city council approving lighting up Chain Bridge in blue and yellow on Sunday evening to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day.
"What should a respectable city leader do when their own people are threatened and blackmailed by another country? Gergely Karacsony says the answer is that one of our wonderful country’s most iconic bridges and symbols, Chain Bridge, should be lit up in that country’s colours," Fidesz councillor Bela Radics told a press conference held at the Pest bridgehead of Chain Bridge on Tuesday together with the group's other members.
"Chain Bridge shouldn’t be blue-yellow, but red, white and green," Radics said.
"Our hearts are red, white and green; we work for every Hungarian," he said, adding that "if someone attacks and threatens our people, we must stand up for Hungarians, rather than represent Ukrainians."
He noted that Hungarians have decided not to support fast-tracking Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, which was "understandably a sensitive issue for the Ukrainian president".
Budapest’s mayor, he said, had a duty to stand up for the interests of Hungarians, adding that he condemned the mayor’s decision to light up Chain Bridge in Ukrainian national colours "on the day that Ukraine threatened our country".
Radics said the mayor’s top priority should be "running the city properly" and standing up for Hungarians rather than Ukrainians.
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