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The news of the resignation of Hungarian MEP József Szájer on Sunday was met with great surprise. Szájer claimed “weariness” and boredom with political life, in a letter sent to the president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli. But the real reasons only this Tuesday were made public and are in the headlines of European newspapers, mainly Belgians.
József Szájer, elected to the European Parliament on the lists of Fidesz, the far-right party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and responsible for the constitutional review that prohibits same-sex marriage in Hungary, was captured this Friday by the Belgian police. , in an “orgy” in a gay bar, at a time when Brussels meets strict rules of social confinement.
The first reports that the Belgian police had interrupted an “orgy” with 25 people, in a gay bar in the capital of the country, began to emerge over the weekend. Belgian police confirmed that neighbors had alerted them to an illegal party in a bar, where they reportedly identified several diplomats and a MEP. Drugs were also found there. Only this Tuesday it was known that the MEP is Szájer, the forerunner of the constitutional revision that limits marriage between people of the same sixth in Hungary. The politician, who has already resigned, is said to have been caught trying to escape through a drain.
In a statement made public on Tuesday, Viktor Orbán’s ally admits to having participated in what he calls a “private party in Brussels” and explains that when the police asked him for his identification, he presented himself as a member of the European Parliament. The MEP guarantees that he has not used drugs and has made himself available for a rapid test, a procedure that the authorities have refused.
Invoked immunity
However, the Belgian police and prosecutors have a different version. A statement from the Belgian Public Ministry, sent to the Euronews channel and quoted by the Belgian press, confirmed that it had identified a man who was trying to escape by going down the building, being injured in the process. It also confirms that “narcotics have been identified in his backpack.” Without having any identification document in his possession, the man was accompanied by the authorities “to his residence where he identified himself as SJ (1961), by means of a diplomatic passport.”
The newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, for its part, quotes the police as saying that the authorities confirmed that they had interrupted an illegal sex party in a gay bar on Rue des Pierres, where they “found 25 people, almost all naked, involved in an orgy. “. According to the newspaper, the Belgian police confirmed the presence of a MEP among the participants and that, upon being arrested, “invoked his immunity”. All participants will have been fined for disobeying the measures imposed by the fight against the pandemic.
József Szájer, 59, is married to lawyer Tünde Handó, a member of the Hungarian Constitutional Court. In addition to being an MEP and a founding member of Fidesz, of which he became vice president, he is also responsible for the drafting of the 2011 Constitution, where Hungary imposes a ban on same-sex marriage. It should be remembered that in addition to this limitation, the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a known opponent of LGBT rights and also wants to prohibit the adoption of same-sex couples.
Szájer has already gone public and has apologized. The former MEP regrets “having profoundly violated Covid restrictions” and admits to having “an irresponsible attitude”. He also apologizes to his family, colleagues and voters, who also ask him to evaluate what he says was “a misstep” in the context of his “30 years of devoted and hard work.”
