The radical nationalist Jobbik party dissociates itself from speeches made at a Holocaust-denying skinhead demonstration last weekend, national daily Nepszabadsag said on Friday, citing a leader of the party.
Deputy Chairman Csanad Szegedi said the uniformed members of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard attending the demonstration belonged to a breakaway section led by Istvan Dosa. Jobbik has nothing to do with that section, he added.
“This was a provocative running amok by Dosa for which we cannot take any responsibility,” he said.
The Hungarian Guard was registered by Jobbik as a “cultural association” in June 2007. Since then, however, the guard has staged several demonstrative marches to intimidate Hungary’s Roma communities throughout the country, evoking protests from parliamentary parties, NGOs and minority organisations.
Szegedi admitted that the guardsmen participating at the demonstration could be easily mistaken for members of the mainstream Hungarian Guard. Despite repeated calls by Jobbik, they still wear the same uniform, he added.
Liberal Free Democrat leader Gabor Fodor on Wednesday branded Jobbik as a neo-Nazi party.
Szegedi said that Jobbik had no position of its own about the Holocaust, it wholly relied on the views of historians.
Asked about the party’s links with Eduardo Rozsa-Flores, killed by Bolivian police in Santa Cruz last week, Szegedi denied that Jobbik had ever sought military, strategic or political advice from him.
“We considered him a hero of the war in former Yugoslavia but he had no impact whatsoever on the affairs of Jobbik or the Hungarian Guard,” he told Nepszabadsag.
About time some element of truth here.
I know….
He was only following orders……….
Real news from someone who knows !
Dosa family have an history of communist affiliation-he was a real ‘shrill” or stooge designed to discredit Jobbik-hence his dismissal last year.Open your eyes to the reality around you children-you are been lied to all the time.