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Balázs Fürjes, Secretary of State for Development of Budapest, wrote in a letter to Mayor Gergely Karácsony to follow the people of Budapest and all the well-meaning Hungarians he had offended by supporting László Bíró, the “racist candidate” named Budapest. “Judapest” the secretary of state told the MTI on Wednesday.
The Secretary of State said that the mayor had done something that no one should have done as the first man of Budapest. According to Balázs Fürjes, many people were disappointed in the mayor and expected an apology from him.
Opposition parties, including the Dialogue led by Gergely Karácsony, launched a candidate in the Lucky Interim Parliamentary Elections that sparked a conflict with many of their previous Facebook posts, which they considered “anti-Semitic, anti-Gypsy, racist”. In his Facebook posts, László Bíró called Budapest Judapest, among other things, wrote about Jewish usury and called religious Jews “lice” for their characteristic hairstyles.
In recent weeks, leaders of many left-wing, Jewish and Roma intellectual organizations have called it unacceptable that left-wing opposition parties and leaders, including Gergely Karácsony, openly support a candidate with a racist past, “thus legitimizing racism. and anti-Semitism. “
Balázs Fürjes highlighted: Mayor Gergely Karácsony, in addition to nominating a politician who caused public outrage by naming Budapest “Judapest”, among others, as party president, in his capacity as mayor, in the mayor’s office, in the City Hall from Budapest, To support László. In this video, the mayor said, referring to the racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Gypsy statements of the opposition candidate, that “none of us is perfect.” Before Thursday’s meeting of the joint government-capital conciliation body, the Budapest Public Development Council, Balázs Fürjes told the MTI that
the mayor’s support for the “racist, anti-Semitic, hateful” candidate is unacceptable, and it is time for the mayor to apologize for this to our fellow Jews and Gypsies, the people of Budapest and all the well-to-do whom he has offended.
As he put it, “the first man in Budapest should have protested first of all against the racist politician who called Budapest Judapest.”
He is confident that, at least after the elections, the mayor will not be subject to coalition coercion and is willing to see that he made a big mistake. He asked Gergely Karácsony for a clear apology and the withdrawal of support for racist politicians and politicians.
Said the Secretary of State.
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