The left-liberal chief of Baja, Klára Nyirati, has spent superb sums on communication and self-promotion lately. Whereas, in accordance with the narrative of the left, they’re bleeding the native governments, they don’t seem to be sparing the wages of photographers, videographers and communication gurus. – wrote the Magyar Nemzet.
Native media
In March 2020, Baja Hangja Kft. – the writer of Bácskai Napló, Baja Rádió and Baja Televízíó – obtained HUF 32.3 million from the municipality in a help contract. This quantity continued to rise that 12 months and exceeded HUF forty million. Within the following 12 months, 2021, the funds of the talked about mediums was already priced at HUF 81.9 million, however this was raised twice: first in October to HUF 96.4 million, after which to HUF 106.6 million earlier than Christmas.
Within the meantime, the media firm has undergone two administration adjustments. In December 2020, the initially appointed Zoltán Kovács left, who promised the board that beneath his management there could be freedom of speech in Baja, that’s, the opinion of the right-wing, which is in opposition domestically, may seem within the municipal media. This opinion was additionally authorized by Klára Nyirati, one of many 2019 in his interviewwhich he gave as a newly elected mayor.
After the departure of Zoltán Kovács, Nyirati arbitrarily signed the previous editor-in-chief of Pesti Est, Krisztina Viszmeg, who banished the Fidesz representatives – not solely the municipal representatives, but additionally the area’s parliamentary consultant – from the paper. Viszmeg remained the pinnacle of Baja Hangja for ten months, then Zoltán Kovács returned and has been managing director ever since.
Gyurcsány’s man holds the reins
Throughout her mayorship, Klára Nyirati took András Keszthelyi, a former advisor to Péter Medgyessy and Ferenc Gyurcsány, to her aspect. Along with Klára Dobrev, Zoltán Gál and Róbert Braun, the communication guru was a member of Medgyessy’s closest marketing campaign workforce in 2001-2002. Throughout Ferenc Gyurcsány’s time as prime minister, he belonged to the workforce of Zoltán Gál J., the political secretary of the Prime Minister’s Workplace, which additionally included András Batiz and László Boglár.
