Gabor Posfai, a veteran of sports goods retailer Decathalon who has run the company's Hungarian unit for seven years, will take over party operations from Mark Radnai, the party's vice president, Magyar said in a statement on Monday.

Radnai will focus on building the political community and managing the party's communications, as well as setting up platforms necessary for community-building, the statement said.

Meanwhile, businessman Dezso Farkas, one of the party's founders, is returning to coordinate and manage the "ever-expanding, patriotic community of the Tisza Islands".

Magyar said that Farkas wanted to build a strong social network "that actively participates in shaping public life".

Farkas is a believer in digital and data-driven techniques and improving efficiencies, he said, adding that the Tisza Islands network would influence decision-making at a national level.

Meanwhile Kocsis: Brussels 'forcing DK, Tisza to collude'

The Democratic Coalition (DK) and Tisza Party are being forced to collude under orders from Brussels, which wants to topple the government, Fidesz parliamentary group leader Mate Kocsis said on Monday.

DK and Tisza have at times openly cooperated on key issues, and this is clear from how they vote in the European Parliament, Kocsis said in a Facebook post, listing "migration, gender ideology and the war" as issues on which they saw eye to eye. They also worked together to the Budapest budget, he added.

"Why would [parliament] after 2026 be the exception?"

Kocsis wrote that DK leader Ferenc Gyurcsany and Tisza head Peter Magyar hardly got along on a personal level, "but clearly this isn't a personal matter".

He said they had "no other option" but to collude. "How often have we heard" opposition figures saying they would "never collude with Gyurcsany?"

 He said politicians on the opposition side always ended up doing so.

Kocsis said Magyar and Gyurcsany would inevitably "hold their noses" and "work together".

MTI Stock Photo - for illustrative purposes only

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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