Jobbik demands assets transparency of politicians’ families

Budapest, February 2 (MTI) – Jobbik party has called on all deputies to publish asset declarations for their family members.

Jobbik MP György Szilágyi told a press conference on Tuesday that like last year, representatives of his party have again published such lists of family assets. He said that the information was available on Jobbik’s website in a comparable format.

If all politicians followed suit, he said, it would become clear if the wife of state secretary László L Simon actually had the money to pay for recently acquired estates. The deputy added that a parliamentary committee had rejected an appeal to launch an investigation into the L Simon case.

On Monday, the leftist opposition parties made similar proposals to increase transparency, after the asset declarations of politicians were made public.

Együtt’s Viktor Szigetvári said that politicians “typically belonging to Fidesz” used “undercover” loans from private individuals to cover up “holes” in the incomes and demanded changes to the asset declaration system, which he said was “risible”.