At some point, it became a German Karaksonia. “The fight against cockroaches is not a matter for the city government,” the mayor of Budapest answered a competing politician who reported parasites in the hospital. Nowadays, the exchange turned it into numerous Hungarian media. Cockroaches are a symptom of the dilapidated healthcare system and, as a rule, for the descending trend in which Hungary has been around for many years. First of all, one is responsible for this: Viktor Orban, who has ruled since 2010 and was more profitable than many problems.
As an opposition mayor of capital, opportunities are limited, since almost all power is based on the central government. Nevertheless, Karaksoni throws himself against Orban. When the Hungarian government announced the participation in Budapest pride as a crime, Caraksonia simply did this at a city event and, thus, escaped a ban on the meeting. Then more than 200,000 people took to the streets, despite the impending fines. Karaksoni shouted – successfully. Now he is threatened by the year of prison from the campaign.
A person was not necessarily born as a revolutionary one. Karaksoni grew up as the son of two survey engineers in the east of Hungary. He studied sociology at the University of Budapest Etoros Lorand and initially worked as a researcher of opinion. From 2002 to 2008, when Social Democrats ruled, he advised Hungarian chancelliya. At the same time, he taught at the University of Corvin about the electoral behavior and research of political opinion.
Only in 2009, Karaksonia was part of the recently founded green party LMP, which also described the fight against corruption. He headed their election campaign in 2010 and moved to parliament as a member of the parliament. In 2013, there was a break: LMP refused to cooperate with other opposition parties. Karaxonia and seven other deputies left the parliamentary group and founded Párbeséd Magyarországé (“Dialog for Hungary”) – a name that was supposed to become a program.
Climate protection as a priority
Soon after, Karaksonia was not succeeded in a parliamentary place, but surprisingly won the mayor’s office in the Budapest area in Zilo. Five years later, he went on a big jump and won six competitors as a new leader of the United opposition. With the slogan “Budapest belongs!” In October 2019, he defeated the previous Fidesz-AMTS holder with 50.86 percent.
As a new mayor, Karakonia announced the priority of climate protection, promised transparency and emphasized that there should not be “no second -class citizens”. In 2020, Karaksoni first had a rainbow flag in the rainbow town hall.
Currently, the police announced that they were not investigating the participants in pride: on the grounds that the organizers upset citizens in relation to the legal situation. However, from the “organization of the forbidden assembly”, Karaksonia is now threatened by the procedure.
“It would help my political popularity, even if my family will miss me,” he jokes. The reason will show how far Orban goes to make opposition harmless. He can largely count on the judiciary, he has long submitted to it. Florian Bayer, Vienna
