"Electricity provider Tivi switched the lights off on all main roads in Esztergom on Thursday, due to unpaid bills. An extra 40 policemen arrived in the town to patrol the streets along with civil guards.Meals provider HunGast stopped supplying meals to Esztergom schools on Wednesday, also because the city has not paid its bills. A foundation agreed to pay for nearly 1,600 meals for primary schools and kindergartens to be supplied by the company.
Independent mayor Éva Tétényi told HVG on Thursday that she is ready to resign provided the city council dissolves itself.
Balázs Steindl, head of the Fidesz-led council, said the assembly is preparing a decision that will solve the problems of public lighting and hot meals.
The council will address the problems when it meets today, Népszabadság writes.
A Wednesday meeting of Tétényi and the city councillors in the office of county government commissioner Judit Bertalan Czunyi produced no result.
Esztergom residents will protest outside the town hall this morning."
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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25.11.2011