Oszkár Molnár
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Oszkár Molnár is a Hungarian
Politics of Hungary
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 politician and has been member of the National Assembly
National Assembly of Hungary
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 (MP) since 1998.

Biography

He was born in Sajószentpéter
Sajószentpéter
Sajószentpéter is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies in the Miskolc–Kazincbarcika agglomeration, 10 kilometres away from the county capital.-History:...

, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, on 1 June 1956. He finished Izsó Miklós Secondary School of Edelény
Edelény
Edelény is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies in the valley of Bódva River, north from county seat Miskolc.-History:...

 in 1974. He is married, with two children. His wife is a managing director.

Business career

He worked as a driver for Borsod Volán in Miskolc
Miskolc
Miskolc is a city in northeastern Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 170,000 Miskolc is the fourth largest city of Hungary It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the regional centre of Northern Hungary.- Geography :Miskolc is located...

 from 1980 and 1991. He has been the managing director of Eurolux-Trans Ltd. since 1991, which is, based on its 1996 results, among the 200 most successful businesses in Hungary. He has been a member of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén is the name of an administrative county in north-eastern Hungary , on the border with Slovakia. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. The capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county is Miskolc...

 branch of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1994, where he has been vice chairman of the transport department since 1996. He was the chairman of the Edelény City Sport Club from 1996 to 1999.

Political career

He joined the Alliance of Free Democrats
Alliance of Free Democrats
The Alliance of Free Democrats – Hungarian Liberal Party is a liberal party in Hungary, led since July 2010 by Viktor Szabadai . The SZDSZ is a member of the ELDR and of Liberal International...

 (SZDSZ) in 1988, he became the executive of the Edelény branch. He left the party in 1993 and joined the FIDESZ - Hungarian Civic Party (FIDESZ-MPP). He had been the head of the Edelény branch of FIDESZ since 1993, he had been the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County vice president of the party since 1999. In the local elections of September–October 1990 he was elected individual local representative in Edelény. He ran in the 1994 parliamentary elections
Hungarian parliamentary election, 1994
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. In the national elections of spring 1998
Hungarian parliamentary election, 1998
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 he was elected individual MP representing Edelény, Constituency 8, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. In the local elections of October 1998 was elected local representative from the list, but he failed to win the office of mayor.

In the April 2002 parliamentary elections
Hungarian parliamentary election, 2002
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 he was elected incumbent individual MP for Edelény. He had participated in the work of the Economic Committee since May 2002. In the local elections of 20 October 2002 he was elected mayor of Edelény, an individual local representative, and he also made it to the County Assembly. He was elected MP in the 2006 elections
Hungarian parliamentary election, 2006
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 from the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county regional list. He was a member of the Committee on Employment and Labour.

In 2009 he said that: "I love Hungary, I love Hungarians, and I prefer Hungarian interests to global financial capital, or Jewish capital, if you like, which wants to devour the whole world, but especially Hungary." He later said that, it was only a response to a Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres
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 speech in which Peres said that his country aims to "colonise" Hungary when he spoke of Israel's investments abroad, Peres said that Israel
Israel
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 was "buying out Manhattan
Manhattan
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, Poland
Poland
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, Hungary..."

Molnár also claimed that the language of instruction in Jerusalem schools was Hungarian and they were "learning the language of their future homeland." His party did not denounce his statement but simply said it was "embarrassing." Adding that he would not even consider ousting Molnár from his party or parliamentary faction, as the remark "did not violate the party's bylaws.". However, in 2010 he was excluded from the Fidesz, due to these remarks. Instead of him, a Lebanese-origin
Lebanese people
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 doctor, Pierre Daher became the Fidesz candidate. Molnár later also claimed that pregnant Roma women deliberately try to induce birth defects so they can give birth to "fools to receive higher family subsidies. I have checked this and it’s true; they hit their bellies with a rubber hammer so that they’ll give birth to handicapped kids." In 2011, he denounced roma women at the Hungarian police authorities.

During 2010 national elections
Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010
A parliamentary election was held in Hungary on 11 and 25 April 2010 to choose MPs for the National Assembly. They were the sixth free elections since the end of communist era. The 386 members of parliament were elected in a combined system of party lists and electoral constituencies...

 he decided that measured by itself at Edelény constituency. As a result of withdrawal of the Jobbik candidate before the second round Molnár was able to defeat his opponent, Pierre Daher and became a member of the National Assembly as an independent lawmaker. He was elected to a member of the Committee on Audit Office and Budget after the 6th parliamentary session hold the inaugural session on 14 May 2010.

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