After the election defeat, Viktor Orbán also offered the position of the chairman of Fidesz. The party will decide on his future at the June convention, which will involve sweeping changes.
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his position as chairman of the Fidesz party. The possible acceptance will be decided by the party congress, which will take place on June 13, Fidesz MP Erik Banki said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. TASR informs about it.
- Viktor Orbán offered to resign from the position of Fidesz party chairman.
- The fate of his position will be decided by the Fidesz congress scheduled for June 13th.
- Orbán gives up his parliamentary mandate and wants to reorganize the national camp.
- The election on the twelfth of April was won by the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar.
- Orbán accepted full responsibility for the defeat and demands a complete restoration of the right.
Orbán, whose party suffered a defeat in the recent parliamentary elections, announced over the weekend that he was giving up his parliamentary mandate to focus on “reorganizing the national camp”. He stated this after a meeting of the Fidesz presidency, at which several important decisions were made.
The goal is the reorganization of Fidesz
The parliamentary club of the party will undergo a radical restructuring and its chairman will be the former head of the government office, Gergely Gulyás. At the same time, the presidency recommended that Orbán continue to lead the party. Orbán said at the time that he was ready for this task if the party members gave him support.
The Tisza party, led by likely future prime minister Péter Magyar, won the Hungarian parliamentary elections held on April 12. It thus ended Orbán’s 16-year rule, which, according to Reuters, triggered self-reflection and calls for change within Fidesz.
New leadership at the congress
The ruling Fidesz party plans to elect a new leadership at the congress on June 13, said Banki, quoted by the MTI news agency. The party did not respond to a request for comment, and Orbán did not comment on Tuesday’s meeting.
After the elections, in an interview published on the Patriot YouTube channel, Orbán declared that as head of Fidesz, he accepted full responsibility for the defeat and that the Hungarian right needed to go through a complete renewal. When announcing that he would not serve as a deputy in the new composition of the parliament, he said that he was “returning” his mandate to Fidesz.
