Did the Hungarian government drop Rákosrendező fearing uproar?
Fidesz, “scared of public anger and uproar”, has “dropped” the contested “Maxi-Dubai” development project for the Rákosrendező area in Budapest, Péter Magyar, the leader of opposition Tisza, said on Thursday.
Magyar said in a Facebook post that his party had recently pledged to prevent the government’s “corrupt mega-project” from going ahead, and “Fidesz criminals have already backed down: they have been forced to let go of plans for a money pump bigger than ever.” The Tisza leader said the prospective UAE investors had intimated their intention to abandon the project due to social protest in Hungary.
Magyar said that Tisza if it forms Hungary’s next government, would use legal and political means to prevent the robbery of “major traffic hubs and the national heritage”. Magyar called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to “stop distributing the nation’s assets”. “The homeland is not for sale at any price,” he added.
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