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The municipality of Budapest has spent 356 thousand florins on announcements from the mayor – he wrote Gergely Christmas Mayor on his community page on Wednesday, in response to Fidesz-KDNP writing in the capital announcement that according to public data, the local government has spent nearly 30 million guilders on Gergely Karácsony’s Facebook page advertisements.
In a statement sent to the MTI on Wednesday, Fidesz called it repulsive that while the mayor spoke of transparency, he was “spending taxpayers’ money on propaganda.”
In response, Gergely Karácsony wrote that since the data is public, Fidesz is probably aware that his statement is a lie, as the Budapest municipality spent HUF 356,403 on announcements from the mayor and advertised “to obtain information, mainly in relation to with the coronavirus epidemic. “
The mayor also pointed out that the government spent more than 350 times this, more than 126 million florins on Facebook, while Fidesz and Fidelitas spent 16 million florins on social media.
He added that he very much regrets that the current media situation in Hungary is that the mayor is left almost alone with social media, where he can inform citizens.
Apparently, the mathematics came out in Fidesz when including the expenses of the Dialogue and the All for Budapest Association at 30 million, but in their statement they stated that “the local government of the capital pays for the ads on Gergely Karácsony’s private Facebook page” .
Today, Fidesz in Budapest issued an announcement on how much the Budapest City Council spent on advertisements in a
Posted by Gergely Karácsony – Wednesday September 2, 2020
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