Vojvodina Hungarian Plenum Urges Leadership of Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians to Step Down

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The Vojvodina Hungarian Plenum on April 15 sought the resignations of Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians president Balint Pastor and the remaining leadership of the party, whom it described as "the vassals of a losing agenda."

"After Balint Pastor dragged [the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians] into a losing agenda and persisted in supporting Fidesz, [the party of outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban], to the end, even when it seemed that [Hungarian opposition party] Tisza would likely win the election with a two-thirds majority, it would be the moral choice for him to resign as party president, and for the entire leadership to follow suit," read a press release by the Vojvodina Hungarian Plenum.

The organization called on the leadership of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians to step down "before they lead the largest Hungarian party in Vojvodina and the entire Hungarian community into other similar political adventures and failures." "Balint Pastor must leave politics before he again takes the wrong side at parliamentary elections in Serbia and pushes his party into another failure with the humiliating and contradictory coalition with the Progressives and the Radicals," the press release read.

The Vojvodina Hungarian Plenum also called on Arpad Fremond, head of the National Council of the Hungarian ethnic minority, to step down from the council, and urged the editors in chief and directors of the media outlets founded by the body to do the same.