Hungarian Parliament Lifts Immunity of PM and Orbán-Era Ministers
- On Monday, Hungary's Parliament voted 139-0 to lift the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers, clearing the way for prosecutors to proceed with ongoing criminal investigations.
- Prosecutors allege former Culture Minister Balázs Hankó oversaw misuse of $53.6 million from the National Cultural Fund, while Development Minister Miklós Seszték is suspected of accepting $37.2 million in bribes tied to state contracts.
- Magyar faces investigation for alleged misdemeanor theft after he allegedly took a man's phone during a June 2024 nightclub altercation and threw it into the Danube River, with damages scarcely exceeding $300.
- Lawmakers from Fidesz and the Christian Democrats boycotted the vote, characterizing the charges against their colleagues as "political tyranny" by Magyar's government, underscoring deep partisan divisions.
- None of the officials have been indicted; immunity is designed to protect lawmakers from political persecution, and the European Parliament previously refused similar requests to suspend Magyar's immunity in September 2024.
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The Hungarian Prosecutor General's Office had requested last week that the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Májár and two MPs be lifted so that it could continue its investigations. The post Hungary: Parliament lifts immunity of Prime Minister Májár and two former Orbán ministers appeared first on in.gr.
Hungary's parliament on Monday lifted the legal immunity of Prime Minister Peter Magyar and two former ministers in nationalist leader Viktor Orban's administration over unrelated cases, allowing them to be investigated in separate criminal cases.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar is in trouble over an incident that occurred two years ago in a nightclub. Parliament lifted Magyar's immunity in the controversial case, while the Prime Minister argues that the accusations against him are a political vendetta.
On Monday, Hungary's parliament waived the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and the two former ministers of the government of former nationalist leader Viktor Orbán, so that they could be investigated in separate criminal cases.The investigations into Orbán-era ministers, who are suspected of corruption worth millions of euros, are the first to related to corrupt affairs against senior government figures from the former prime minister's 1…
The story of a telephone thrown into the Danube after a fight at a nightclub had reached the Hungarian Parliament, the deputies had removed the immunity of Prime Minister Peter Madyar, and the investigators would now be able to question him as a suspect and conduct other legal proceedings.
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