Second strongest political party Jobbik to be eliminated by the State Audit Office?
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Tamás Sneider, the chairman of Jobbik, called together an extraordinary party congress because the State Audit Office fined the party for 270 M HUF (EUR 844 thousand). According to Sneider, they are going to discuss two topics: the termination of their parliamentary group which would raise further financial questions and the continuation of the national resistance announced by the party last year.
As we reported earlier, before last year’s parliamentary election, Jobbik was fined more than 660 million forints (EUR 2 million) by the SAO for unauthorised campaigning. According to Sneider, SAO’s latest fine means that the party would have to pay almost 1 billion HUF (EUR 2.8 M) which is nearly impossible – reported magyarhang.org. At the moment, the biggest question is whether Jobbik, as the biggest opposition party, can or cannot continue its work – added Sneider.
SAO examined Y2018 thus, the money Jobbik spent on the 2018 elections. In fact, SAO published their report yesterday based on which Jobbik was fined 136 M HUF (EUR 425 thousand), and the party’s state support would be reduced by the same amount of money. The cause is prohibited financial support of 136.4 M HUF.
