Telex: These are the Fidesz members who were in the running position on the list, but prefer not to sit in the parliament

“Those who have now entered the parliament are not the people we will need there” – he said four days after the election Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz faction promised a complete redesign and transformation. Fidesz-KDNP won 42 list mandates in the April 12 election in addition to 10 constituency mandates. On Monday, it was revealed which of the listed representatives will sit in the new parliament that will be formed on May 9.

Based on the announcement of Gergely Gulyás, from the 42 representatives on the shortlist 25 do not take up their mandate, and “thereby giving the opportunity for others to be parliamentarians in their place.”

Together with their current position and their place on the list, we show those from the Fidesz list who resigned from well-paying parliamentary jobs:

• Viktor Orbán (1st place), President of Fidesz, Prime Minister, Member of Parliament,
• Zsolt Semjén (2nd), chairman of the KDNP, deputy prime minister, parliamentarian,
• László Kövér (3rd) President of the Parliament, President of the Fidesz National Committee, Member of Parliament,
• Gál Kinga (4th) Member of the European Parliament, Fidesz board member,
• Gábor Kubatov (6th), Member of Parliament, member of the Fidesz presidency,
• Lajos Kósa (7th) Member of Parliament, member of the Fidesz presidency,
• Szilárd Németh (8th), Member of Parliament, member of the Fidesz presidency,
• János Latorcai (10th) Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament,
• Sándor Lezsák (11th), Member of Parliament, Vice-President of the Parliament, President of the National Forum Association,
• István Jakab (12th), Member of Parliament, Vice-President of the Parliament, President of the National Association of Hungarian Farmers’ Associations and Farmers’ Cooperatives (MAGOSZ),
• István Mohácsy (14.) is the president of Fidelitas,
• Attila Stójka (15th), Member of Parliament, Government Commissioner responsible for Roma relations,
• Gergely Tapolczai (16th) Member of Parliament,
• Member of Parliament Gabriella Selmeczi (18th),
• Antal Rogán (23rd), Member of Parliament, Minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office,
• Ágnes Molnár (27th), Member of Parliament,
• Erik Bánki (30th), Member of Parliament,
• András Demeter (31st), Member of Parliament,
• Zsolt Kovács (33rd), Member of Parliament,
• Gyula Földesi (34th) Member of Parliament,
• Tamás Menczer (36th), Member of Parliament, Director of Communications of Fidesz,
• Miklós Soltész (39th), Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Church and Ethnic Relations at the Prime Minister’s Office.
• Zsolt Nyitrai (41st), Member of Parliament, Prime Minister’s Commissioner,
• Pál Zsigmond Barna (42nd), Member of Parliament, outgoing State Secretary of the Ministry of European Affairs.

In July, the list will be expanded with Balázs Orbán, the campaign chief of Fidesz, who will be a member of the European Parliament, and Pál Szekeres, the current EP representative of Fidesz, will take his place in the Hungarian Parliament.

From the list above, it can be seen that no one from the current presidency of Fidesz is taking up their mandate, but Gabriella Selmeczi, who has been an MP since 1994, and Erik Bánki, who has been in the parliament since 1998, are leaving.

Representatives from the list can resign their mandate at any time, and in this case the party leadership decides who will take their place. There is only one restriction in the legislation: only a from the list of 279 people announced at the beginning of March you can send someone else to the parliament, the order no longer matters.