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to the scandal, Farkas lost majority support within the ORÖ by the autumn of 2015, his relationship with his successor István Hegedüs had deteriorated too. Farkas then tried to get a majority through bribes against Hegedüs and his supporters. After Hegedüs suffered a heart attack in
January 2016, Farkas' group attempted to replace him with János Balogh and to seize majority within ORÖ. Farkas was replaced as head of the Bridge to the World of Work project in January 2016. He was succeeded by fellow Fidesz politician of Romani ancestry,
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filed a complaint alleging budget fraud. The
National Bureau of Investigation, the General Prosecutor's Office and the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) launched an investigation in May 2015. In practice, the project became the paying point for Farkas and his allies from public funds. Due
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as a candidate on the Fidesz
National List. Since May he has been participating in the work of the Committee on Human Rights, Minority and Religion as well as the Committee on European Integration. He held the post of deputy parliamentary group leader of Fidesz from 15 May 2002 to 1 November 2015. He
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request in the same way that it had previously asked Ákos Hadházy, an independent MP, that "five people had already been questioned", with no indication of a different outcome. Farkas remained inactive in the 2018–2022 parliamentary term too. A leaked audio recording revealed in
January 2022 that
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Due to the scandal, Farkas lost all of his political influence but remained a member of the
National Assembly. He was expelled from the Committee on European Affairs in September 2016. He has never made a statement to the press or speak in plenary since the scandal erupted. Farkas was re-elected
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From 1995 to 1999, he was chairman of the
National Gypsy Minority Council, then from 1999 to 2002 chairman of the National Gypsy Council. On 27 March 2003, he established a new organization, the National Association of Roma Councils by uniting thirty regional Roma organisations as well as nine
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funding to help the unemployed of Roma origin find employment. However it was revealed in
February 2015 that the leaders of the project bought expensive cars and spent HUF 1.6 billion on luxury items, including office building, IT equipment and overpriced impact studies. Opposition politician
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between 2001 and 2005. He acquired a university degree in political science there in 2005 and since then he has been a part-time teacher in the university. Farkas has never could provide any evidence of his university degree or at least of his secondary school graduation. However, there are
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315:, the Government Commissioner for Roma Affairs stated that Farkas "cannot be rebuilt" because of the "plethora" of scandals around him. He said Farkas has expired himself not only among the Gypsies, but, worst of all, among his party members. Thereafter, Farkas did not run in the
299:, only those delegates who supported Farkas brought the vote. Vajda, who was also not invited to the delegates' meeting, said that the delegates' decision would be challenged in court. Vajda said individuals who had never been members of the Lungo Drom also took part in the vote.
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evidences proving the opposite, and the rector of ELTE firmly refuted his activity as a teacher. That's also proven, Farkas was passing the 8-year-long elementary school over 15 years, and he probably finished the 8th class in prison, when he was twenty years old.
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In 1996, a prosecution investigation was launched into the foundations set up by Lungo Drom. As a result, Farkas was charged in 1998 with "embezzlement and breach of accounting discipline." However, he received a presidential pardon from
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representative and liaison politician between the Roma community and the
Hungarian government. A Gypsy Conciliation Council was established in 2013 too, with the involvement of Farkas, but the organization never worked in practice.
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hundred branches of the Lungo Drom. He was elected chairman of the federal board of the organization. He was among the signatories of the electoral agreement of 21 December 2001 concluded by the Fidesz, the
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Hungarian minority elections of 2011, as a result he was elected president of the National Gypsy Council for the second term, following
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829:"Orbán Viktor védi, de az OLAF elővenné Farkas Flóriánt is"
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