Vona calls for “clean” general election at Jobbik congress
By MTI
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The radical nationalist Jobbik party wants a “clean” general election next year with parties’ programmes competing against each other instead of votes being bought, party leader Gabor Vona told a Jobbik congress on Saturday.
Vona told the tenth party congress for the election of officials in Budapest that his party wants to improve public safety, job creation, boost the economy, establish accountability and cancel lawmakers’ immunity.
Commenting on a recent interim local election in Baja, he said it revealed that each side was involved in cheating.
He said the issue of public safety in Hungary is closely linked to “Roma-Hungarian coexistence.”
“We say that crime has no colour but if we visit a prison, we will see that 90 percent of the criminals are coloured,” Vona said. Jobbik has no problem with anyone just because they have different colour of skin or a different culture, but it is a problem if they feel they are not obliged to keep social norms just because they are Roma, he added.
Vona said if Jobbik enters power, they will publish the list of lawmakers who have dual citizenship and will make public any support received by civilians and parties from abroad in order to reveal “who really controls Hungary.”
The congress elected Vona the party’s prime minister candidate.
He told the press that Jobbik was representing people who had become disillusioned in the Socialists, as well as in Fidesz. He added that he wanted to participate in a debate with the other prime minister candidates to allow everyone present an image for the future they offer to the country. Vona said a significant part of Hungarian society had become “hostages” taken by the Socialists and Fidesz because these parties’ supporters fear of the other side’s victory. As a result, the debate is not about who can offer a better future but the campaign has become “an agony taken hostage by fear,” he added.
In response to a question, Vona said Jobbik would not enter a coalition agreement with any other party. He said his first trip abroad in the capacity of prime minister candidate would take him to Szekler land on Saturday evening.
The congress re-elected party director Gabor Szabo to board chairman. Szabo said he would not run either on a list or in an individual constituency at the 2014 election.
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