Hungarian radical party: dual citizenship kept secret presents national security risk

MPs should declare whether they hold the citizenship of another country besides their Hungarian one, opposition Mi Hazánk has said.

The asset declaration questionnaire could easily be expanded to include a related question on citizenship, Előd Novák, the radical party’s deputy leader, told a press conference on Tuesday, adding dual citizenship presented a national security risk, especially if it were kept a secret.

He said it was important to discover which MPs had obligations to foreign interests and whether they had an “escape route”.

Novák noted that in Israel, MPs must choose between their seat and dual citizenship.

The Mi Hazánk politician insisted that the deputy parliamentary group leader of rival opposition Momentum, Dávid Bedő, had kept his Swedish citizenship under wraps while also speaking up for Sweden in a recent interview.

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