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Opposition leader Tisza Party announced new economic expert
Péter Magyar, president of the Tisza Party, has announced the appointment of István Kapitány, former Vice President of Shell, as the party’s new head of economic development and energy policy. The move is being presented as a key step in Tisza Party’s preparations for potential government responsibility.
This year’s first big signing for Tisza Party
The announcement was made on Saturday via Magyar’s Facebook page, where he described Kapitány as one of the most experienced and internationally respected Hungarian business leaders. According to Magyar, the appointment marks Tisza Party’s “first major signing” of the year.
Kapitány brings decades of global corporate leadership experience to the role. He began his career in Hungary before holding senior management positions at Shell in Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. As a top executive at one of the world’s largest multinational companies, he oversaw operations in 85 countries, managing around 45,000 commercial units and supervising a workforce of approximately half a million people, as reported by 24.hu.
Deep connection to Hungary, despite the huge success abroad
Despite his international career, Kapitány has remained closely connected to Hungary. Between 2020 and 2025, he served as president of the Hungarian Association of Managers, contributing to domestic business and leadership development. He has received numerous national and international awards, including being named Manager of the Year and European Industry Leader of the Year. In 2023, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.
Magyar also highlighted Kapitány’s involvement in Shell’s long-standing partnership with Ferrari, which spans more than seven decades. Through this collaboration, Kapitány worked closely with Ferrari engineers and Formula One drivers, including Michael Schumacher. He has frequently expressed pride in the fact that Shell’s V-Power fuel, one of the company’s most successful products, was developed in Hungary.
A boy from Debrecen, who grew up in Angyalföld
In a short introductory video, Kapitány is described as “just a boy from Angyalföld who conquered the world”, while also being proud of his Debrecen roots. Although he once planned to become a pilot following the tragic death of his father in a plane crash, his career ultimately led him to the highest levels of international business leadership. Kapitány has emphasised his strong belief in Hungarian talent and his deep commitment to the country’s future.
“Kapitány brings decades of global corporate leadership experience to the role. He began his career in Hungary before holding senior management positions at Shell in Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.”
Translation?
Kapitány has spent his life helping to run the machines for The Western Elite, and, if positioned at the top of things in Hungary, he will make sure Hungary never has a national economy, but, one that is completely subordinate to the desires of the International corporations to develop it’s assets and send them everywhere but to the benefit of the Hungarian People.
That is all you have to know.
Oh, yes … he has a nice smile.
The choice in life is always between ‘western elites’ or a domestic kleptocratic mafia.
Unfortunately, Dear Steve, you are absolutely right.
Either you accept corruption that comes from your own people or you get it from aliens.
All people should prefer their own people, and if they do not, then I have to think something is wrong with them.
YeEs, there is something profoundly disturbed about the attitude of someone who thinks : ‘GEE, my country is corrupt, so I will support some foreign power to take us over and get rid of the corruption.’
What naivete … what lunacy!
All that will happen, if a foreign power takes over, is that one form of corruption will be replaced by another, and the new form, alien, will have absolutely no sympathy, whatever, for the people it now rules.
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t – or so goes an old Russian proverb.
Western elites all day long vs. a domestic kleptocratic mafia for Hungary. Higher living standards, higher incomes, higher growth, better infrastructure, public services and last but by no means least, greater happiness.
Well, Dear Steve, as you are a Hungarian living in our midst, it is probably for the best that you feel this way.
That said, the only reason why we have a better standard of living does not come from The Western Elite – but, from us – our efforts, and those of our ancestors.
The Western Elite has merely stolen our goods and redirected it to their own aims.
You seem to prefer the Hall of Fame thieves, as is your right, but, what I really think you prefer is living in an English Gentile Society, even if, in saying that, I have to point out that it is currently on an oxygen machine.
If you like an Anglo society now, you would have loved it 60 years ago.
And don’t forget the infinite free beer, and immortality.
Oh, you aren’t talking about the Two Tailed Dogs’ “program”?
Oh, yes, Dear Márk, the free beer … how could I have forgotten ‘the free beer’?!?
Certainly free beer is better than owning a home or being a majority in your own land!
But, hey … at least your children will be properly homosexual!
Ask the African Nations. Are they happy that the Shell and BP , etc have been taking their resources? Do you want your children to mine the rare earth minerals by hand?
Do you think colonisation is a good think then? Which is better? To be a citizen of a souverin country or be an indigenous person occupied by some imperialist colonisers?
Then I’ll choose the domestic kleptocrats.
At least I won’t get “Allahuagbar”-ed.
Right, Dear Márk, better your own crooks than someone else’s!