Next week, two opposition fathers-in-law who are under the scope of criminal proceedings as defendants will start the new parliamentary term, and the immunity of a third may be invoked.

A member of parliament cannot be a member of parliament who has been legally convicted for committing a crime - the Basic Law of Hungary and the Act on the Legal Status of Members of Parliament stipulate. In the new Parliament, which will take office next week, there are also two opposition representatives against whom the prosecutor's office brought charges, their criminal proceedings are already in court, so they are considered endangered in this respect. One of the accused is László Varju, the vice president of the Democratic Coalition, and the other is András Fekete-Győr, a newcomer to the Parliament, the former president of Momentum and the future leader of the parliamentary group.

László Varju of DK was charged by the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office with a crime against the electoral order, as well as serious bodily harm and disorderly conduct. In the criminal trial that began in December 2020 at the Capital District Court, the security guards protecting the MTV headquarters unanimously stated as witnesses that Varju wanted to break into the studio on December 17, 2018, where a live broadcast was taking place at the time, and that their task was to prevent this. During one of his attacks, Varju crushed the leg of a security guard, who was seriously injured, but several others were injured during the violent politician's attempts to penetrate.

According to the indictment, Varju committed the crime against the electoral system in 2018 as an individual candidate. At that time, he met an independent candidate in a cafe, to whom he promised money if he backed down in his favor, but he refused.

In the case of András Fekete-Győr, the charge is the crime of violence against an official. According to the indictment, on December 13, 2018, on Kossuth Square, at the main staircase of the Parliament, "he threw an ignited smoke-generating device aimed at the policemen lined up to protect the building. The smoke emitted by the device obstructed the vision and breathing of the policemen in the line, and the facility security police measure hindered". The prosecutor's office can also prove with a video recording that the purple politicians acted aggressively against the uniformed people in a way that violates the law. Fekete-Győr and his party colleague, Szarvas Koppány Bendegúz, were asked to impose a suspended prison sentence, as accomplices, gang violence against an official.

The full article of Magyar Hírlap here .

Author: Károly Bán

Picture: Róbert Hegedűs