On Thursday, the Ferencváros DK, MSZP, Jobbik and Párbeszéd invited Ferenc Gegesy to return to public life as mayor, and since the former district leader said yes, the said parties are launching him.
Departure from Hungarian Voice he justified it by saying that he felt that he might help the district in a meaningful way, and that while “a civil war is raging” in the board led by the current mayor Krisztina Baranyi, he might hold it together.
Gegesy also criticized Baranyi for the fact that he did not pay enough attention to the rehabilitation of the district, while currently around 900 people live in 32 houses in unworthy conditions.
According to the politician, referring to this, he also left his position as chief adviser last November, following he did not consider it acceptable that the Baranyi’s would spend a disproportionate amount of money on fixing the Ecseri út metro surface.
On paper, Ferenc Gegesy is running as an independent, while the nine representatives of the parties behind him are running jointly in the municipal election on June 9. Krisztina Baranyi sets up her own team, the members of which are civilians and come from the ranks of Momentum, Kutyapár and LMP.
The mayor also responded to Ferenc Gegesy’s ambitions to return.
“I am surprised by Ferenc Gegesy’s candidacy, because he is running now with those who overthrew him at the time. I wish all of us a good election campaign,” he said, referring to the fact that in 2010 Gegesy was defeated by Fidesz’s János Bácskai in such a way that the socialist Tibor Pál also ran once morest him, so left-liberal votes were split. In 2019, Gegesy still supported Krisztina Baranyi. The 74-year-old Ferenc Gegesy, born in Segesvár, was the mayor of the district between 1990 and 2010 as a SZDSZ politician.
