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Former Protégé of the European Radical Left Hits a Downward Trajectory
Daniel Berg (2-L) with his wife, Katalin Cseh (2-R) at a Pride march.
Former Member of the European Parliament, rising star of the Hungarian radical left, Daniel Berg, has hit another rough patch after embarrassing himself during an event in Budapest. The New York-born front-line warrior of George Soros’ Central European University’s activist network, and the European Parliament’s ALDE group’s former vice-chair, Berg is now facing calls to resign as deputy-mayor of Budapest’s II. district.
According to press reports, Berg has turned up at a public meeting in Budapest intoxicated, where he started shouting with a number of people bragging about his influence and power “do-you-know-who-I-am” style.
He is increasingly becoming a liability and embarrassment to independent II. district Mayor Gergely Őrsi, who has called in his deputy for a talk, subsequently sending him for a longer professional break for “health reasons”.
Berg has since apologized for his behavior, yet the Hungarian left-wing media has already started his political rehabilitation by constructing an aura of victimhood around him, publishing pieces about his “honest confession” concerning his addiction.
Unfortunately politics is an unforgiving arena for those behaving in an aggressive and abusive manner after ingesting an amount of “truth serum”. Gergely Kristóf Gulyás, representative of the government Fidesz party faction in the capital, has seized on the scandal publishing an open letter in which he calls for Berg’s resignation. In Gulyás’ view, the events surrounding Dániel Berg go beyond personal mistakes, and it is therefore the responsibility of the leadership of II. district to maintain the trust of voters.
He called on mayor Gergely Őrsi to take decisive action and make it clear that moral standards matter in public life.
Husband to another scandal-hit former MEP from the radical Momentum Movement, Katalin Cseh, Berg was one of those who took every opportunity to smear Hungary and its government on international forums, calling for its “liberation” from under Viktor Orbán’s alleged oppression. In doing so he was enjoying the support of Europe’s liberal political scenery, as well as Hungary’s anti-government activist diplomatic core, such as former U.S. Ambassador David Pressman, or his increasingly isolated German counterpart, Ambassador Julia Gross. He was part of a delegation of Hungarian left-wing activists who have traveled to Washington to complain about the “catastrophic state” of Hungarian democracy. They were received, among others, by the former Democrat speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, known for saying that “Hungary should not be in the EU now, but it is harder to get them out once they are in.”
The scandal will do nothing to raise the popularity of the now disintegrating leftist former student movement, Momentum, whose leaders have fallen into disrepute one-by-one, including their former President, András Fekete-Győr, who has lost his parliamentary seat after receiving a two year suspended sentence. Momentum is now polling well-under 1 percent, their voters were absorbed by the newest foreign-sponsored opposition movement, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party.
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