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leaving LMP would keep their parliamentary mandates and would coordinate with the remaining seven LMP lawmakers in order to keep the parliamentary group operational on some level. Schiffer said the move would not lead to a party split. Less than 10 percent of the party's membership had indicated a desire to leave the party, he said. The leaving MPs established
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were elected co-presidents of the LMP during the party's congress on 24 March 2013. The seven party MPs were able to re-establish the LMP's caucus on 1 September 2013, after the decision of the
Committee on Immunity, Incompatibility and Mandate. Schiffer said the newly former LMP parliamentary group
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András
Schiffer was born in Budapest on 19 June 1971 to journalist Péter Schiffer (born 1943), a former deputy director of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority (PSZÁF) and jurist Anna Hajnal. Among his uncles are director Pál Schiffer and Socialist politician János Schiffer, who served as
243:. In 1990 he was a founding member of the Young Socialists political movement. He was a leader there until 1992 when he quit that organization. He then worked in the private sector and return to public affairs via the green movement. He became part of the leadership of
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