According to the mayor, to change the country, the opposition must also change its policy.

Local governments are serving the people better in the economic and social crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic than the government in national politics, the mayor said in a message to the MSZP online congress on Saturday.

Gergely Karácsony said in a video posted on the MSZP Facebook page that local governments can play an important role in handling the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, this is what the government sees, so it does everything it is within your power to avoid the work that local governments can do. instead of the government.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán knows that coalitions of local governments led by opposition parties are real challenges for the government, because they serve the people better locally than the government in national politics.

Said the mayor of Budapest.

According to him, local governments led by the opposition show what social governance is like and “this is a great hope for Hungary and a great threat to the government.” The policy of inhibition of local governments in the recent period is about preventing the emergence of an alternative that will change the country in 2022, he emphasized.

According to Gergely Karácsony, “we are living in times of destiny”, to change the country, the opposition must also change its policy, and the MSZP must close its internal debates.

The country expects the opposition to fix its lines

He said.

The mayor promised to continue with the social democracy program that he represented in 2018 and 2019. He added: “we want a democracy where there is no less freedom but more equality.” The Co-Chair of the Dialogue said that there is one thing that only the MSZP can represent in the opposition coalition: social democratic politics. There will be no opposition victory without the Social Democratic Party, he said.

The MSZP held its online renewal convention on Saturday, with Bertalan Tóth Kunhalmi elected as the two co-chairs.


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