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The Budapest metropolitan council will implement 15 projects worth a total of one billion forints (EUR 2.9 m) under its participatory budgeting scheme. The winning proposals were announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
Budapest’s first participatory budget, described by Mayor Gergely Karácsony as an “important experiment in direct democracy” was launched in October 2020. Of the nearly 700 submitted ideas, 53 were put to the vote, and 15 will be implemented on the basis of 13,344 votes received by 31 July.
The ideas competed in three categories according to their purpose and theme:
The Mayor's Office will start preparing the implementation of the 15 winning projects in the autumn.
During the press conference, Deputy Mayor Gábor Kerpel-Fronius said that the participants in the brainstorming and voting procedures can be proud of themselves, especially in this pandemic period. He emphasised that via the participatory budget, the seeds of a new political culture have been sawn, sending a clear message to all Budapest residents that their opinions, proposals and criticism will no longer leave the city leaders indifferent.
The second cycle of the participation budget will begin on 1 October, Kerpel-Fronius announced, adding that he hoped for even greater resident involvement in planning the future of the city. Earlier, the deputy mayor had assured that, in preparing the participation budget, no differentiation has been made between opposition and pro-government districts of the capital.
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