Parties Agree To Make BKV More Transparent

The meeting decided that Demszky should make the BKV more transparent and draw up regulations on transforming the management and supervisory board by late August for the council to vote on in September.

Meanwhile, BKV CEO Istvan Kocsis fired deputy mayor Miklos Hagyo's spokeswoman Eva Horvath on Tuesday after news website Index reported that the BKV had employed her since 2007, meaning she had two jobs at once. Hagyo oversees BKV matters. Horvath was listed as a senior communications consultant at the BKV, but communications director Erzsebet Pasztor Szekely said she had never seen Horvath at company offices. Horvath will not receive any severance pay.

Socialist leader Ildiko Lendvai defended Hagyo, a party MP, on MTV's “Nap-kelte” Tuesday morning, saying she does not see what responsibility rests with Hagyo.

Kocsis said Horvath was hired by the BKV's then deputy communications chief Miklos Regoczi in 2007. For a few months prior to that she was the spokeswoman for DBR, project manager of the fourth metro line.

Demszky disagreed with a Socialist proposal to transfer oversight of BKV matters from Hagyo to Free Democrat deputy mayor Imre Ikvai-Szabo.

Socialist leader on city council Pal Steiner said his party thinks Demszky is wrong to leave Kocsis in his post.

Istvan Tarlos, head of the Fidesz group on city council, told reporters that the opposition demands a full inquiry into the matter, adding that Demszky will have the opposition’s support in finding out “what has been going on at the BKV in the past three years”. Direct responsibility rests with Hagyo rather than with Demszky, he said."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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