Marton Gyöngyösi

Márton Gyöngyösi (2016)

Márton Gyöngyösi (born December 8, 1977 in Kecskemét ) is a Hungarian politician of the Jobbik party and a member of the Hungarian parliament . From 2014 to 2018 he was the vice-chairman of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. Since 2018 he has been the chairman of Jobbik's parliamentary group.

Life

Because of his father's occupation, he spent his childhood in Egypt , Iraq , Afghanistan and India . He graduated from school in Hungary. He then moved to Ireland , where he received a BA in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College . He also spent an academic year at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Gyöngyösi speaks English, German and Russian. In 2005 he worked for KPMG , from 2007 to 2010 for Ernst & Young .

He is married and has a son.

Political activity

Gyöngyösi joined the Jobbik party in 2006 and quickly became one of the closest advisors to party leader Gábor Vona . He made it to the Hungarian Parliament as a candidate for Jobbik in the 2010 parliamentary elections and was elected deputy leader among the party's 21 parliamentary group members.

In 2014 he was re-elected to parliament and served as vice-chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee.

In 2017, Jobbik started a European citizens' initiative , the aim of which is to introduce a fair wage system in Europe and to resolve the economic inequalities between the western and eastern EU states. Gyöngyösi became the head of the initiative's citizens' commission.

He strongly criticizes Hungarian diplomacy and demands that Hungary restore good relations with Western countries. It stands for a balanced foreign policy in the country.

criticism

According to the World Jewish Congress , Gyöngyösi earlier accused Jews of wanting to colonize Hungary. In the Hungarian parliament on November 26, 2012, Gyöngyösi demanded from Foreign Secretary Zsolt Németh ( Fidesz ) that, in view of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza , it was time to “people of Jewish descent who live here, especially in the Hungarian parliament and in of the Hungarian government, which indeed pose a national security risk for Hungary ”. Gyöngyösi has apologized several times and has communicated several times that he had phrased the word incorrectly and that he meant the MPs with dual citizenship. In an interview, Gyöngyösi described his statement as "a bad sentence, a sentence that was not well thought out, a catastrophic sentence".

In 2014 Gyöngyösi described the French Front National and the Dutch PVV , which did not want to enter into an alliance with Jobbik in the European Parliament , as “liberal” and “ Islamophobic ”. They are hostile towards immigration , but according to the " Zionist support of Israel ".

Web links

• Entry on Márton Gyöngyösi in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ globalleadershipproject.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Márton Gyöngyösi's CV. (No longer available online.) In: parlament.hu. Archived from the original on May 3, 2014 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 .  (Hungarian)
3. ^ Jobbik's foreign relations expert: Márton Gyöngyösi
4. ↑ www.wageunion.eu: Our declaration. Retrieved May 8, 2018 . 
5. ^ Gyöngyösi Márton: Nemzetközileg Fidesz – Jobbik helycsere történt . In: MNO.hu . January 20, 2018 ( mno.hu [accessed May 8, 2018]).
6. ↑ Leading official of Hungarian extremist party accuses Jews of colonializing country , worldjewishcongress.org, February 3, 2012.
7. ^ Hungary: Hungarian politician because of anti-Jewish statements in the criticism . In: The world . November 27, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed May 8, 2018]).
8. ^ How Hungary's Far-Right Extremists Became Warm and Fuzzy. In: Foreign Policy. Retrieved May 8, 2018 . 
9. ^ Hungarian Jobbik describes the FPÖ as a Zionist party. www.nachrichten.at, June 26, 2014