József Szájer has returned to public life and is giving interviews one after the other, including how the media handled his scandal and what happened on the ominous day that caused his downfall.
"If I go through these 149 articles, I find in many places the unauthorized intrusion into the private sphere that I have just expounded on for quite some time"
- József Szájer responded in his interview to Telex that, in his opinion, the portal dealt disproportionately with his political downfall and the scandal that caused it.
“Even if I had committed the hypocritical or whatever crimes you list, my privacy rights have been severely violated. And you also took the lion's share in this. I have not committed any crime"
- declared the politician, who is extremely offended that lies were told about him in various reports.
As is known, József Szájer, a founding member of Fidesz and a former EP representative, left public life in December 2020 under scandalous circumstances.
In November of this year, he returned to the public as director of the Free Europe Institute.
In his interview with Telex, József Szájer also said that:
• With his recently published book, he wants to show that he is not a caricature, that his life is not defined by the Brussels scandal, even if that event was important and significant in his life and political history. According to him, his political activity did not end for an inexperienced, useless politician, but for someone who put something on the table during the thirty years.
• No one has anything to do with his private sphere, neither depending on the system nor independent of the system, so its public discussion is unjustified and partly illegal.
• He considers himself a freedom fighter who, as early as 1990, was in favor of everyone in Hungary being able to live their private and political lives freely. He does not consider the scandal in Brussels to be hypocrisy, but the artificial outrage that was related to it. In Hungary, everyone can live freely, and everyone's privacy is respected, except perhaps his own.
• He no longer took part in the drafting of the constitution, according to which the mother is a woman and the father is a man. He does not want to reveal whether he agrees with this sentence or not.
• In Hungary, he did not experience any other interference in the private sector apart from the "impermissible defamation" that was perpetrated against him in December 2020. Then there were border crossings that he didn't deserve. He didn't commit a crime, just something that betrayed the trust of the voters.
• With a statement, he cannot change the meme that has formed about him, he will live with it for the rest of his life, so he refuses to reveal more details about the events in Brussels, he does not try to clean himself up. He said everything about this issue in the statements made after the event.
• There were a lot of lies about him in the media. When he fled Brussels, the ominous house did not even have an eaves, and the location was not what appeared in the media.
• The democracy, freedom, and, if appropriate, Fideszness of this system does not depend on the fact that Fidesz politicizes together with III/III and III/II agents, but on the essence. And in terms of substance, I think everything is fine. Fidesz is almost perfect.
• Everyone should protect their own rights, and then it will be a better country. Everyone should sue if someone's privacy is violated.
• He did not need Viktor Orbán's permission to return to public life. It was only natural that he would not be muzzled for the rest of his life.
• The rule of law operates in Hungary. If the Hatvanpuszta estate, the luxurious life of Antal Rogán and Viktor Orbán or the Felcsút stadium bothers someone and you see them as illegal, then file a report. He deals with breaking the law, not the moral dimension. According to him, all this is the private life of the people involved, and he does not deal with that.
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