The 39-year-old Hungarian government official sued the Hungarian state in March of last year as she was unable to take any countermeasures at a Hungarian court against her dismissal without explanation, the Strasbourg court ruling stated. The woman was represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Strasbourg. The woman’s name was not made public by the court at her request.

LMP welcomed the court ruling and said that a number of verdicts regarding public servants could be passed against the state. In last June’s debate on the bill on government officials LMP said it consistently argued that dismissals without explanation as a means of political purge is gravely unconstitutional, and runs counter to EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Socialist Party called on governing parties to pay the Ft 3 million of compensation and expected future compensation from similar lawsuits from their own party coffers.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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