From the 2026 budget audit
A separate national earmark for one village's ferry — on top of the rule-based channel that already exists.
13.5 million Ft for Vezseny municipality's ferry and access-road renovation: a named earmark on top of the Cím 3.2 rule-based ferry-maintenance line that already provides formula support for exactly this kind of infrastructure.
About 3 Ft per taxpayer — 13.5 million Ft total — in a discretionary national earmark for one municipality's ferry renovation, alongside a rule-based channel that was already designed to fund this need.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: Vezseny's ferry and access roads renovated with a named national grant. The unseen: the implication — that the rule-based Cím 3.2 ferry-maintenance line, available to all municipalities with ferry infrastructure, was bypassed in favour of a political allocation to one named recipient.
Objection
"Ferry infrastructure in small riverside villages requires more than formula grants can provide — this is a specific urgent need."
Answer
The genuine ferry-maintenance need is met through the rule-based Cím 3.2 line and the municipality's own budget. A named earmark on top of an already-existing rule-based channel does not fill a gap — it creates a parallel political channel that allocates by discretion to the named recipient while the formula applies to everyone else. That is the mechanism this classification objects to, regardless of the amount.
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The analyst's verdict
Support for the renovation of the ferry and service roads of Vezseny municipality
Rationale
A named capital grant to one municipality for ferry and access-road renovation. The same single-municipality earmark pattern as Cím 3.5–3.7. Ferry maintenance in general is addressed by the formula-style Cím 3.2 line; a separately-named earmark for one municipality's crossing is discretionary allocation on top of the rule-based channel that already exists. Classified Immediate Cut: the genuine ferry-maintenance need is met through Cím 3.2 and the municipality's own budget, not through a named national-budget line.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate the earmark. Genuine ferry-infrastructure needs are met through the rule-based Cím 3.2 channel and municipal own revenue.
Affected groups
Vezseny municipality and its ferry infrastructure; the national taxpayer base.
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