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SNS: Hungarian MEP Should Speak in 'Appropriate Institution'
Tuesday 19 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 19 (TASR) - The Slovak National Party (SNS) said on Tuesday that Hungarian MEP Csanad Szegedi, who proposed in Strasbourg that Slovakia should be temporarily excluded from the European Union, should practise his verbal utterances at an appropriate medical institution instead of in the European Parliament.
The 27-year-old Szegedi, who entered the European Parliament as a nominee of the right-wing Hungarian party Jobbik, thinks that Slovakia should be expelled from the EU for a certain period because of its State Language Act, which Hungary and representatives of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia think curtail language rights.
Speaking to TASR, SNS press secretary Peter Palus further stated that Jobbik is a nationalistic party that is an ally of the centre-right Fidesz, seen as a shoo-in in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Szegedi put himself on the map with his controversial behaviour as early as during the first session of the new European Parliament, when he appeared in the uniform of the ultra-right Hungarian Guard in order to demonstrate his opposition to the Hungarian Government's decision to outlaw the group.
Palus also stated that Jobbik's opinion on the State Language Act squares with Hungary's official one.
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