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2.5 months ago, the government submitted to the Parliament the two bills that would have given Sweden and Finland parliamentary support for NATO accession, but the Parliament still did not include them in the agenda, HVG wrote.
In order to speed up the decision, the MSZP would have included the two proposals on the agenda of Tuesday’s session, but Speaker László Kövér rejected the change in his own authority, and when the MSZP asked for an open vote on the proposal, the Fidesz-KDNP majority agreed with Kövér and voted it down.
According to Bertalan Tóth of MSZP, only two NATO member countries have not ratified the joining of the Finns and Swedes to the alliance, Turkey and Hungary. According to Tóth, “Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO also strengthens the effort to jointly guarantee the safety of citizens. The MSZP expects the Hungarian government to strengthen this as well.” Tóth called it a shame that the Fidesz majority – including the State Secretary of National Defense, Szilárd Németh – voted this way. (HVG)
