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April 25th, 2008

Budapest city council demands removal of nationalist statue

By Hungary Around the Clock

Mayor Gábor Demszky suspended a Budapest city council meeting yesterday when Jobbik demonstrators staged a protest in favour of keeping a turul bird statue in the 12th District.

Local Fidesz mayor Zoltán Pokorni had initiated a proposal for retaining the statue, which was built without the permission of the council. However council leaders insisted that the statue must be dismantled.

The Council approved a Christian Democrat proposal to introduce concessionary BKV passes for single mothers from September. Later in the day governing coalition deputies, with the help of the Democratic Forum, approved a fourth metro line bid for EU funding.

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