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Huge Protest on the Horizon: Budapest Public Transport Can Halt on the Busiest Day of the Summer

Summary by Daily News Hungary
According to a joint initiative by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, Ferencváros (9th district) Mayor Krisztina Baranyi, and Dávid Vitézy, councillor of the Podmaniczky Movement and former mayoral candidate, the well-organised Budapest public transport system will come to a halt on the busiest day of summer as a demonstration against the Hungarian government’s “anti-Budapest policies”. 20 August can become the new 24 December in Budapest Based o…

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Vitézy, along with Gergely Karácsony and Krisztina Baranyi, submitted a five-point crisis plan to tomorrow's session of the Budapest General Assembly, but hopes it will not be necessary.

This is also included in the emergency scenario agreed upon by Gergely Karácsony, Dávid Vitézy and Krisztina Baranyi. However, the mayor and the two politicians do not agree on all elements of the action plan.

Mayor Gergely Karácsony, Krisztina Baranyi, Mayor of Ferencváros and Dávid Vitézy would join forces to blackmail the government by restricting public transportation on the state foundation day. Zsolt Wintermantel, an expert at Budapest Workshop, put it this way: Vitézy says yes to the pride, but no to the August 20 celebration.

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Budapest's emergency scenario is ready, which would shut down public transport for half a day on August 20th - Gergely Karácsony backed out of the proposal involving MVM and MOL at the last minute, citing legal reasons.

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Index broke the news in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
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