Gergely Farkas

Gergely Farkas (born 3 November 1986) is a Hungarian politician who was a member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2010 and 2022, sitting as a Jobbik politician until 2020, then as a non-partisan. He served as the inaugural president of the Jobbik Young Section (Jobbik IT) from 2013 to 2019.

Profession Gergely Farkas was born in Kecel on 3 November 1986. He is Roman Catholic. He finished his secondary studies at the Bolyai János Secondary Grammar School of Kecskemét in 2005. He earned a degree of sociologist-economist in the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2013. He did not run for the position in 2019. He was replaced by Gergő Keresztesy in February 2019.

Member of Parliament

Farkas was elected a Member of Parliament via the Nógrád County regional list of the Jobbik in the 2010 parliamentary election. He functioned as whip of the Jobbik parliamentary group between 2010 and 2014.

Disagreeing with the direction and methods of the new party leadership led by Péter Jakab, who was elected president of Jobbik in January 2020, Farkas announced his quit from Jobbik and its parliamentary group on 27 May 2020, together with Tamás Sneider and Andrea Varga-Damm. Farkas said "I no longer want to assist Péter Jakab and his team in their activities, which have plunged this party that had seen better days into political and moral depravity." He added "the current Jobbik is not my community". Farkas continued his work in the parliament as an independent MP. He did not participate in the 2022 parliamentary election.