Green opposition LMP party elects Keresztes group leader

Lawmakers of green opposition LMP elected party co-leader László Lóránt Keresztes their group leader on Tuesday.

Keresztes replaces former co-leader Bernadett Szél in the role, who resigned her leadership positions in the party last month.

At a press conference, Keresztes said he did not participate in Tuesday’s vote, and that the party’s deputies voted unanimously in his favour.

The new group leader said it was especially important that LMP represent the people and concrete local issues in parliament.

Answering a question, Keresztes said that

cooperation with conservative Jobbik party was “possible at a local level, concerning actual, local programmes” and suggested that his party’s leadership should only provide a “framework” for such activities.

On another subject Keresztes said that the government had no consistent migration policy and was “using migration as a tool to retain power”;