Ángyán defended his moves in an interview with news website HVG. What he meant to achieve with his proposal is for legal regulations on family farming, rather than integrated production organisation, to become a cardinal law – but only two Fidesz caucus members supported this, while the others rejected it “in a grand coalition with the Socialists,” he claimed.

“It is rumoured that the state will assign integration duties per region in concessions to big-moneyed groups” suspected to be in the background, who lease the majority of state land and receive a large part of agrarian subsidies, he said.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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