Csanád Szegedi

Csanád Szegedi ( born September 22, 1982 in Miskolc ) is a Hungarian politician and since 2009 Member of the European Parliament. From 2003 to 2012 Szegedi was a member of the far-right party Jobbik. He resigned from the party after he had been confronted him with his previously unknown Jewish roots; Since then he has no party affiliation.

Outside Hungary it was known in 2007 as co-founder of the ultra-nationalist paramilitary Hungarian Guard and he was, before his resignation, as one of the most extreme agitators against Jews and Roma in his party.

Life

Szegedi was born in Miskolc. His father Miklós artisans, his mother Katalin software engineer.

He studied for four years, with no degree, at the University of Miskolc law and then in Budapest at the Károli Gáspár Protestant university.

Political activity

Until the revelation of his Jewish roots Szegedi was known for his inflammatory speeches against Jews and Roma.

As co-founder of the far-right Jobbik 2003, he joined the party in 2005 and became Vice Chairman in 2006.

In 2007 he was a founding member of, emerged from the Jobbik, ultra-nationalist Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organization remember their black uniforms and striped flags of the, reigning during the Second World War, fascist Arrow Cross Party. The Guard was legally banned in 2009.

As Szegedi was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, seemed to his political rise no more to stop.

Confrontation with Jewish roots and party outlet

2010 Szegedi was informed by his party colleague Zoltan Ambrus, a convicted arms dealer, about the Jewish roots of his mother. Ambrus recorded the conversation and wanted to blackmail him with it later political. Szegedi reacted surprised and tried Ambrus ' silence with EU funds and the prospect of joining the European Union to purchase.

End of June 2012 came from Szegedi from the Jobbik party, but his mandate as an MEP he maintains. He apologized to the Orthodox Budapest Chabad Rabbi Slomo Köves for his anti-Semitic statements and is now a member of the Orthodox Jewish community.