Péter Jakab

Péter Jakab (born 16 August 1980 in Miskolc, Hungary) is a Hungarian politician, President of Jobbik and member of the National Assembly. Since June 2019 he has been the Parliamentary group leader of the Jobbik.[1][2] He was the Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader of Jobbik from February to June in 2019. He was elected Member of Parliament in the 2018 parliamentary election.[3] He was a Member of the House Committee on Legislation from 2018 to 2019 and he was the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Justice in 2019 in the Hungarian National Assembly.[4]

The native form of this personal name is Jakab Péter [native form of the name in Eastern order]. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Péter Jakab
President of Jobbik
Assumed office
25 January 2020
Preceded byTamás Sneider
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
8 May 2018
Personal details
Born (1980-08-16) 16 August 1980
Miskolc, Hungary
Political partyJobbik
Children3
ProfessionPolitician

Early life

He has always openly talked about his Jewish origin.[5][6][7] His great-grandfather died in Auschwitz. His grandmother converted to Christianity in 1925 and raised 11 children in Mezőtúr.[8][9][10] Jakab graduated in 1998 at the Faculty of Biology of Diósgyőri High School. He graduated from the University of Miskolc in 2004. He was a history teacher in Buda Secondary School from 2004 to 2007. He worked as a boarding school teacher from 2008 to 2009 at the secondary and vocational boarding school in Miskolc. From 2009 to 2010, he was history teacher in Kalyi Jag Roma Minority Secondary and Vocational School in Miskolc.[11][12]

Political career

He has been the President of Jobbik's Miskolc group since 2009. In 2010, he was the councilman in Miskolc City Council and a member of the City Council's Legal and Public Security Committee. He has worked as Jobbik's Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Vice President since 2012. In 2014 he was the mayoral candidate for Miskolc in the 2014 municipal elections.[13] He got 20.53% of the votes, finishing third behind incumbent mayor Ákos Kriza (42.37%) and former city Police Chief Albert Pásztor (33.26%).[14][15] In September 2016, Jakab was appointed Jobbik's spokesman.[16][17]

He was Jobbik's MP candidate in Constituency I of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County at the 2018 Hungarian national elections. He got 20597 votes, which was 127 less than Fidesz' Katalin Csöbör's, making it the closest single-member constituency race in these elections.[18]

After he was elected Member of Parliament he became the party's Deputy Group Leader in January 2019,[19][20] then Group Leader after Márton Gyöngyösi was elected as MEP.[21][22][23]

Since Jobbik's board collectively resigned due to the poor results achieved at the 2019 European Parliament election,[24] he expressed his interested in running for the presidential seat. Interviewed by ATV's Straight Talk show on 29 August 2019, Péter Jakab announced his candidacy for Jobbik's presidential seat at the party's National Congress in September.[25] Jakab later withdrew because the party did not support his idea in the Electoral Board meeting to extend the board's mandate in such a way that it would only expire after the 2022 national elections.[26] He did not run in the 2019 municipal election, he endorsed the joint opposition candidate, Pál Veres.[27]

On 25 January 2020, Péter Jakab was elected for president in Jobbik.[28][29][30] He received more than 87 percent of the votes.[31]

On 25 January 2021, Péter Jakab made the decision: he will run in the primary election as candidate for Prime Minister. [32]

Personal life

He is married and has three children.

References
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  2. "List of MPs – House of the National Assembly – Országgyűlés". www.parlament.hu. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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  6. "Former Hungarian radical party Jobbik elected new president with Jewish roots". Daily News Hungary. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  7. Walker, Shaun (1 February 2020). "Does electing a leader with Jewish roots prove Jobbik has changed?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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  9. NOL (17 July 2014). "Válasz Szegedi Csanádnak: "Sosem leszek eszküszegő és áruló"". NOL.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  10. Nolan, -Daniel (30 June 2014). "Jobbik to run Jewish candidate for mayor of Miskolc". The Budapest Beacon. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  11. Hírösszefoglalónk (16 July 2014). "Auschwitzba invitálja Szegedi Csanád a jobbikos díszzsidót". NOL.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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  13. Megosztom, 2014 06 28 16:40. "Önkormányzat 2014 – Jakab Péter a Jobbik miskolci polgármesterjelöltje". BOON (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  20. Kft, Webra International (17 June 2019). "The Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia | Jobbik elects new parliamentary group leader". www.visegradgroup.eu. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  21. Gergely, Nyilas (17 June 2019). "Jakab Péter lett a Jobbik frakcióvezetője". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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  24. Balázs, Cseke (1 June 2019). "Lemond a Jobbik elnöksége". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  25. ATV. "Jakab Péter elindul a Jobbik elnöki pozíciójáért". ATV.hu. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  26. Népszava. "Jakab Péter nem lesz Jobbik-elnök, elhalasztják a kongresszust". nepszava.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  27. "Péter Jakab: Jobbik must become Hungary's largest trade union". jobbik.com. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
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  32. Zrt, HVG Kiadó (25 January 2021). "Jakab Péter indul a miniszterelnök-jelölti előválasztáson". hvg.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Tamás Sneider		 President of Jobbik
2020–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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