Defence Minister Imre Szekeres on Thursday instructed the ministry’s legal department to withdraw its challenge to the suspension of the construction permit for a NATO radar station atop the Tubes hill near Pécs. It said it continues to respect the written and unwritten rules of democracy.
The station is an issue in the Pécs mayoral election campaign, as most residents are opposed to the plan.
Speaker Katalin Szili, the Socialist’s candidate, said earlier in the day that no radar station will be built on top of Tubes hill if she is elected, and that she would take the necessary steps if Szekeres did not.
According to some reports, NATO no longer insists so vehemently on the radar station because the region’s geopolitical position has changed with the admittance of Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Albania to the alliance, Népszabadság writes.
It is possible that the station has lost its strategic importance and Szili may have background information that confirms this supposition, the newspaper’s sources said.
Szili once called Pécsi demonstrators ‘stupid people’ for opposing this radar,right above the city centre,now having inside info of its lack of importance she is jumping on the ‘no radar’ bandwagon in a desperate attempt to persuade voters this weekend–sad fact is still too many naive fools believe in the commies (sorry socialists) in that city,likely to stay red and thus doomed to further corruption and ineptitude yet again.
Fabian. I just want to take a second to applaud your posting, here. It makes a welcome change to the diabolical drivel we have recently been
subjected to hereabout!