Anti-LGBT Hungarian MEP resigns after being caught at gay sex party, breaching COVID rules

József Szájer, who co-founded Prime Minister Victor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party, tried to dodge a police raid of the party in Brussels by “fleeing along the gutter”. When police caught the politician, his hands were “bloody” and he was “possibly injured”. The sex party, in the city’s central Grand Place, was attended by at least 20 people, mostly male. This included two diplomats from the EU. The number in attendance breached the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, which allow a social bubble of one inside, and four outside.

The politician has been one of the most divisive figures in Hungarian politics since 2010, when he helped write the country’s controversial constitution. The constitution emphasised that marriage was to be between men and women — in what was interpreted as a push back against campaigning for marriage equality. More recently the party proposed same sex couples be banned from adoption.

Mr Szajer then suddenly resigned on Sunday, releasing a statement about the strain of political life.

He also denied possessing drugs saying he didn’t know how he ended up carrying them.