Viktor Orbán will not sit in the new Parliament – announced on Saturday the outgoing Prime Minister. Orbán said that the Fidesz presidential meeting has just ended, “discussions about the renewal of the national side, about our faction, are going on at full steam.” According to the outgoing Prime Minister, the Fidesz faction will be formed on Monday, which will be radically transformed and its leader will be Gergely Gulyás. Then he said:
“The mandate I won as leader of the Fidesz-KDNP list is actually Fidesz’s parliamentary mandate, so I decided to give it back. We will need me now not in the Parliament, but in the reorganization of the national side.”
He also announced that a national caucus will be held next week, and the renewal congress due in the fall has been brought forward to June. Orbán said that if the congress honors him with its trust, he is still ready for the task.
Orbán spoke publicly for the second time after Fidesz’s election defeat. First, four days after April 12, a He rated it in Patriot Orbán promised a complete redesign and restructuring of the situation and his party. “Those who have just entered the parliament are not the people we will need there,” he declared, and spoke about how the representatives on the Fidesz-KDNP list would have been able to work well in the parliament if they had won, but now there is a new situation, and in the opposition “we need different kinds of people, different kinds of skills, different kinds of representatives.”
With brief interruptions, Viktor Orbán has been at the head of Fidesz for a total of almost 30 years, of which he has been president without interruption since 2003. His first working day in parliament It was on May 2, 1990, at the founding session of the new, freely elected parliament. He was one of the few MPs who spent 36 years on the bench without interruption. Orbán was Prime Minister of Hungary for five terms, from 1998 to 2002, and then from 2010 to 2026. Orbán was the longest-serving prime minister in the European Union, and also the longest-serving Hungarian prime minister.
Shortly before Orbán’s announcement on Saturday, it became clear that Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, who came second on the Fidesz list, would not take up his parliamentary mandate either. In addition to the president of the KDNP, two more experienced Christian-Democratic politicians, János Latorcai, the vice-president of the Parliament, and Miklós Soltész, state secretary, also act in the same way. Semjén a day earlier he also resigned from his position as party chairmanbut it was not accepted by the National Board.
Based on the results of the election, 52 representatives of Fidesz entered the next Parliament, 42 of them from a list and 10 from individual constituencies. Listed candidates can resign their mandate at any time, there is one condition: only a from the list of 279 people announced at the beginning of March someone else can be sent to the parliament instead of them, but the order no longer matters.
