• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Bencsik Quits Jobbik Saying Party "Ashamed Of Its Right-Wing Positions"

Bencsik Quits Jobbik Saying Party "Ashamed Of Its Right-Wing Positions"

• 20 Feb 2020 10:21 AM
• Hungary Matters

MP János Bencsik on Wednesday said he had quit the nationalist Jobbik party and its parliamentary group, citing a “political revenge campaign” by the party’s new leadership against “those who hadn’t backed their team”.

In a video message posted on Facebook, Jakab said he considered the policies pursued by party leader Péter Jakab “morally unacceptable and fatal when it comes to Jobbik’s future”.

Bencsik said another reason for his departure was Jakab’s alleged insistence that Jobbik no longer had a use for “divisive” topics covering policies for Hungarians beyond the borders or remembrance policy “that hinder the appeasement of left-wing voters”.

He said he considered it “unacceptable” that Jobbik had become “a party without a face of its own that is ashamed of its right-wing positions”.

Bencsik vowed to be one of the most active independent MPs and represent 21st century right-wing policies that envisage Hungary’s future as part of Europe. Bencsik won his parliamentary seat from Jobbik’s national party list.

MTI Photo: Koszticsák Szilárd

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Bencsik Jobbik Hungarian Opposition

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Traitorous Vitezy? Budapesters Let Down by Mayor's Planned Deal All About 'Power and Money', Says Szentkiralyi

• 21 Nov 2024 6:52 AM

Commenting on reports that the mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karacsony, plans to nominate David Vitezy and Ambrus Kiss as his deputies, Fidesz group leader in the Budapest assembly, Alexandra Szentkiralyi, on Wednesday called "the deal unworthy of the people of Budapest" as it solely spoke to "power and money".



Mayor of Budapest Accuses Fidesz of Seeking to Amend Election Law to Favour Itself

• 19 Nov 2024 5:04 PM

Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, has said ruling Fidesz wanted to boost its own election chances by reducing the number of electoral districts in the capital and thereby diluting the city's voting weight in parliament relative to its population.



Fine Over HUF 1 Million Issued for Vandalising LGBTQ Materials in Budapest to Mi Hazank MP

• 13 Nov 2024 5:36 AM

The Budapest Municipal Court has fined Elod Novak, a lawmaker of the Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) party, to 1.1 million forints (EUR 2,690) for various instances of removing rainbow flags and defacing a poster connected to LGBTQ issues.



Magyar to File Police Report on 'Blackmail', Tisza to Expel Vogel

• 12 Nov 2024 6:22 AM

The leadership of the opposition Tisza party has decided to expel Evelin Vogel from the party, and party leader Peter Magyar will file a report with the police alleging blackmail, the party said.