From the 2026 budget audit
69.1 millió Ft for 'other regional developments' — no project, no location, no purpose.
An unnamed regional-development operating line with no specified project and no contractual counterparty — the same undefined-residual form as the larger 'other' lines in this chapter.
Roughly 17 Ft per taxpayer per year — 69.1 millió Ft in operating costs for regional activity the budget cannot name.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: disbursement to unspecified regional purposes. The unseen: the citizen who has no way to examine what their tax funded, because the line itself provides no information about the activity.
Objection
"Regional development needs flexibility — not every project fits a named category."
Answer
Flexibility is a reason to keep allocation criteria broad, not to keep the allocation unnamed. Every project that draws on this line has a physical location, a contractor, and a defined scope somewhere in the procurement chain. If it cannot be named in the budget, it cannot be assessed in the budget. Any genuine commitment inside it returns as a named project line.
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The analyst's verdict
Regional development tasks — Other regional developments — operating
Rationale
A residually-named regional-development line with no specified project and no identified contractual counterparty. Immediate Cut; any genuine in-flight commitment inside it should be re-presented as a named project line.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate in the 2026 cycle. Any genuine in-flight commitment inside it should be re-presented as a named project line.
Affected groups
Recipients of undisclosed regional development disbursements; no identified contractual counterparty.
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