MEP Márton Gyöngyösi was elected the new chairman of opposition Jobbik at the party’s congress on Saturday.

“Considering that Hungary currently has no real nationalist and conservative party,” Gyöngyösi said he was determined to lead such a party.

He promised to develop Jobbik as a pro-Europe party. “I would like Jobbik to be an intellectual home and community for everyone pursuing democratic values and proud of their home country,” he said.

It was Gyöngyösi back in 2012 – well prior to the formerly radical right-wing Jobbik’s alleged repositioning into becoming a center right party – who urged the government to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national security risk.”

The Jobbik politician said the list was necessary because of heightened tensions following a brief conflict in Gaza at the time.

“I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here [in Hungary], especially [MPs] in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary,” he said.

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