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Fidesz group leader meets fellow MP over "anti-Semitic" remark |
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Monday, 12 October 2009 |
The main opposition Fidesz party's group leader met Oszkar Molnar, a Fidesz MP on Monday, to discuss remarks he made recently which are widely seen as anti-Semitic.
Tibor Navracsics met Molnar before a parliamentary session to clarify what he had exactly referred to when he had talked publicly about "global Jewish capital".
Molnar, who is also mayor of Edeleny in north Hungary, recently told a local television channel in an interview that he preferred "Hungarian interests to global capital -- Jewish capital if you like -- which wants to devour the whole world, especially Hungary."
At their meeting Navracsics and Molnar agreed that all forms of anti-Semitism, discrimination and violence are intolerable in politics, Fidesz said in a statement. Molnar asserted that "as before, he forms an opinion about people on grounds of their work and not of their origin," the document added.
Molnar told the press on Monday that he plans to run for re-election in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Asked if he would discuss this matter with Orban, he said "there was nothing to discuss."
Fidesz leader Viktor Orban told reporters in response that "he would first wait and see if Molnar was supported in his own constituency," before forming an opinion. Orban was asked if he considered Molnar's remarks anti-Semitic, and he responded that the question should be addressed to "the owner of the controversial statements." He added that Fidesz "respects human rights and all communities resident in Hungary."
Ildiko Lendvai, leader of the ruling Socialist Party, had called on Fidesz to sack Molnar over what she labelled as "Nazi rhetorics". Parliamentary group leader of the small opposition Free Democrats Janos Koka accused Fidesz of failing to take a clear stand on the issue. Small conservative opposition MDF said in a statement that "no democratic party would tolerate such an MP as Molnar among its ranks."
Molnar sparked anger earlier when he had claimed that pregnant Roma women in his town harmed their unborn babies in order to get higher family allowances. He also made derogatory remarks about a gay MP
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