He told the press before the meeting that he did not want to get embroiled in explanations, but he was “very wrong thinking” that it would be possible to take “people far to the right of me” closer to European values. In connection with a proposal by the Democratic Coalition that he should be fired from his post as head of the Socialists’ EP delegation, Szanyi said that he was “fully open” to re-negotiations of any kind but only after people who acquired positions under his leadership also resign from their posts.

According to press reports, in 2013 Szanyi made a bet with the bikers that if the left lost at the spring parliamentary election, he would invite the bikers to Brussels and pay for their hotel, meals and fuel. In turn if the left-wing won, then the bikers would have to invite Szanyi to dinner.

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