From the 2026 budget audit
4 milliárd Ft in capital for unnamed regional projects with no identified counterparty.
Residual capital allocated to unspecified regional work — no named investment, no contractor relationship the state must honour, no output to assess.
Roughly 1,007 Ft per taxpayer per year — 4,022 millió Ft in capital flowing to unstated regional purposes, with no way to verify the investment or its return.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: capital transferred under a broad heading. The unseen: the specific projects and recipients receiving it without having to justify the allocation in a budget document — and the contractor who did not receive the work.
Objection
"Capital budgets need flexibility for unforeseen projects — you can't pre-name everything."
Answer
4 milliárd Ft is not a contingency reserve — it is a capital programme with no named programme. A contingency reserve has a stated purpose (unforeseen events of a defined class) and a governance rule (who authorises a draw). This line has neither. Genuine in-flight regional capital commitments can be re-presented as named projects.
Share if you think 4 milliárd Ft in capital should name what it builds before it is spent.
The analyst's verdict
Regional development tasks — Other regional developments — capital
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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