Péter Márki-Zay, the joint candidate for prime minister of the opposition, announced on his Facebook page that he will not take up his mandate in the parliament.

"After a long consideration, I decided not to sit in the parliament - now I have to protect the children of Vásárhely from Fidesz taking them to Ukraine as bulletproof vests, including four of my sons, who are not even soldiers," said the politician, the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely on Wednesday in its entry.
He wrote, even before the election, he said many times in response to questions that the result of the election is not legitimate even if we win - and not primarily because of election fraud, mail-in ballots, legalized vote tourism and rural voters threatened with losing their jobs or bought .

According to him, a significant part of the voters was completely misinformed by the "one-sided, lying propaganda machine". "They were defenseless against Fidesz's lies, they really believed that Orbán, who is in love with the military and even sends soldiers to hospitals, is the guarantee of peace, and the opposition would not send uneducated young people to die in Ukraine - a country of 44 million people, where NATO does not send people, rather, it provides military assistance with cyber security advice," said Péter Márki-Zay.

He added: today the Fidesz propaganda machine is able to make people believe that they are black, that a right-wing, rural Christian mayor with seven children is Gyurcsány's man, that he hates rural people, and that he would send his own children to die in a foreign war.

In this situation, I don't even want to maintain the appearance that Hungary is a parliamentary democracy, where the opposition can achieve anything in the parliament, so I will not take the place I won as the leader of the list, said Péter Márki-Zay.

He wrote, "together with the re-registered voters, some of János Lázár's advantage in the city will probably be reversed", but as the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, his most important task now is to strengthen the trust of his "beloved" city, to preserve the corruption- and politics-free city management and responsible management , and fulfill the rest of your promises.

At the same time, he also announced that he will not leave behind "the 106 heroes who ran in the election, as well as the candidates of the primary election, the 27,000 vote counters, the hundreds of thousands of young people, the million-strong Roma community and the two million opposition parties".

In this system, it was proven that Fidesz could not be replaced in elections - but this does not take anything away from the glory that hundreds of thousands of Hungarians actively fought with us in a heroic struggle for an honest, Western-committed, rising Hungary - wrote Péter Márki-Zay, emphasizing: he feels a responsibility to "keep this community together and as patriotic resisters we all fight against corruption and arbitrariness."

MTI

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