András Schiffer, co-chairman of Hungary’s opposition green LMP party and leader of its parliamentary group, has announced his resignment from all party functions and retirement from day-to-day politics in an interview published on Index.hu.
Mr. Schiffer, a founder of Politics Can Be Different (LMP) movement upon its establishment in 2008 made it clear that he will not run in upcoming elections in 2018, has no intention of becoming an MEP in Brussels, a constitutional court judge or President of the Republic.
Instead, he will return to his profession as a lawyer and remain engaged in “building a field of intellectual force” around the party while keeping his membership in the party.
When there is lack of intellectual field around which could provide stability to an opposition party, critical to the system, then it is very difficult to make a breaktrhough, he said.
