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Daily News Daily News · 27/05/2020
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Sneider, Farkas and Varga-Damm quit Jobbik parliamentary group

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Tamás Sneider, a lawmaker and former leader of conservative opposition Jobbik, announced on Wednesday afternoon to quit the party’s parliamentary group, citing “an unworthy” situation.

Sneider also announced his resignation as deputy speaker of parliament.

Explaining the decision, Sneider said in a statement that Jobbik’s leadership with Péter Jakab at its helm “needed only four months to throw all of the party’s national and conservative ideas out of the window, as well as chase away in an extremely cruel way the solidarity and camaraderie the party promoted to the outer world”.

Sneider said

“opinion terror and intimidation” have become common practice within Jobbik which he said he could not accept in any form.

Jobbik spokesman György Szilágyi said on May 18 that the nationalist party would call Sneider back from the post he had taken up in 2014 to replace him with fellow party member Zoltán Balczó. Three days later, however, Sneider announced that he would refuse to step down.

Subsequently, two other lawmakers, Gergely Farkas and Andrea Varga-Damm said that they would quit the group.

Farkas, deputy leader of the group, said on Facebook that he was no longer willing “to assist Péter Jakab and his team with driving the party along the path of political and moral depreciation”.

“This is no longer my community,” Farkas said, noting that

Jakab repeatedly refused to address right-wing, nationalist ideas in public speeches saying that “it would deter left-wing voters”.

He accused Jakab and the party leadership of “systematically eliminating all members they consider enemies” ever since they were elected.

Varga-Damm told MTI that

prior to the group meeting which was scheduled to decide about her exclusion, the party leadership told her that she was given “a second chance”.

She said, however, that the way she and her case were handled over the past ten days and the treatment of Sneider were for her unacceptable.

  • Jobbik’s Varga-Damm defies party leaders and refuses to return her mandate

Varga-Damm announced to continue her parliamentary work as an independent deputy.

With their departure, Jobbik‘s parliamentary group has shrunken to 17 members from 26 it had just after the 2018 general elections.

Source: MTI

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