At home: József Szájer left Fidesz

Our article is updated …

József Szájer, a former MEP who left Fidesz, announced his resignation in a letter to Gábor Kubatov, the leader of Fidesz’s party, writes the Hungarian Nation.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the official newspaper about the Szájer affair, saying that what József Szájer did did not fit the values ​​of his political community.

We will not forget and reject his thirty years of work, but his action is not acceptable and cannot be defended. After what happened, he made the only correct decision when he resigned his term in the European Parliament with an apology and left Fidesz. We have taken note of your decision.

József Szájer, a member of the European Parliament who resigned from Fidesz on Sunday, revealed on Tuesday that an event that violated the Belgian curfew (the resigned MEP called the event a house party, the Belgian press wrote about a sex party) was terminated by the police. After the police arrived, the politician tried to escape them over the gutter, without success. After he was caught, a drug was found in his bag, which he claimed he did not know had gotten there and had not used. Legal proceedings have been prosecuted for drug-related crimes.

The resigned representative is a founding member of Fidesz and has been a member of the party since 1988. Szájer has dedicated his entire political career to representing European affairs. Starting in 1990 he worked on EU integration and then on his career in Strasbourg with the first EP elections. One of Viktor Orbán’s oldest comrades in arms, the drafting of the Basic Law can also be linked to his name.

The scandal has affected the world press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP, NBC, Business Insider, Financial Times, Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC, Le Monde, The Liberation, The Politico, Spiegel, Die Presse, Der Standard, Kurier, Neue Kronen Zeitung went one by one on Wednesday morning to withdraw the resigned Fidesz MEP in Brussels.

Viktor Orbán has not commented on the matter until now, the place of the government meeting on Wednesday morning, the Carmelite monastery, was closed to journalists by cordons. Some members of the government have been able to be expressed by members of the press, but they have been chosen by a narrow margin. Justice Minister Judit Varga said the same thing that Fidesz had mentioned earlier in her statement that Szájer had made the only correct decision to resign.

Chancellor Péter Szijjártó said he knew nothing more about the scandal surrounding Fidesz MEP József Szájer than could be read in the newspapers. “What I can tell you is that, after many decades of work, the deputy has announced his resignation, apologizing to the political community, the electorate and his family, the only thing we can do is acknowledge it. Exactly what happened may one day be revealed. “

On Kossuth Radio, Balázs Hidvéghi, Member of the European Parliament for Fidesz-KDNP, said that he had known József Szájer for more than thirty years, and yesterday I heard this news with great shock and sadness. I value him and respect his political activity, but at the same time we are all falling, we are people, he is also falling ”.

The opposition made a much louder voice over the Szaner scandal. According to András Fekete-Győr, president of Momentum, the sex and drug scandal of the politician Fidesz is the complete moral bankruptcy of the ruling party. According to Ferenc Gyurcsány, after the József Szájer sex party scandal, Fidesz has even fewer rights to “applaud Christian values” or to interfere in people’s private lives.

In response to the case, Donald Tusk, chairman of the European People’s Party, wrote on Twitter: “What else should Fidesz do to make everyone notice that they just don’t fit in with our family?”