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VOLNER CALLS FOR NEW JOBBIK LEADERS

János Volner, a deputy leader of opposition Jobbik, has called for the conservative party’s leadership to be swept aside and a new one installed.

“Nobody has given the current presidium a mandate to engage in a closest possible alliance with liberal-left parties,” Volner wrote to Jobbik’s grassroots leaders, adding that a party congress should be held to elect a new presidium and officials. A copy of his letter was published online by business weekly Figyelő on Friday.

Referring to Jobbik’s endeavours to turn itself into a “people’s party”, Volner scorned attempts to forge a close alliance with green party LMP, “a party that defines itself in its statutes as liberal and centre-left … and which, in any case, is in the midst of a cycle of self-destruction”. Such an alliance would compromise the party’s founding values and objectives, he added. “Excuse me, but I’m not a whore,” he wrote in the letter.

Volner also accused Jobbik’s leader and his deputy of forging an alliance “with NGOs sponsored by speculator George Soros, a freemason” and the leftist opposition Democratic Coalition. He also lamented Jobbik’s “current catastrophic state of affairs” and insisted that party members, including mayors, were deserting the party.