Speaking in the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen at a news conference held with fellow left-of-centre campaigner, Gordon Bajnai, the Unity alliance’s candidate for prime minister said that they awaited the ruling Fidesz party’s response to the radical nationalist Jobbik’s initiative. Mesterházy said even were Fidesz not to respond, the entire Socialist parliamentary group would be happy to declare their citizenship.

“I am a Hungarian citizen and I only have a Hungarian passport,” he said. The Jobbik initiative came after it emerged that the disgraced former Socialist deputy chairman, Gábor Simon, had a false African passport.

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