Hungary's Supreme Court Kúria Rejects Referendum On Paks

  • 8 May 2014 9:00 AM
Hungary's Supreme Court Kúria Rejects Referendum On Paks
The Kúria has rejected an application submitted by the Together-Dialogue alliance on initiating a referendum on the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant, on the grounds that referendums may not be held on obligations resulting from an international treaty.

The question submitted by the alliance does not refer to the deal to finance the project with a loan from Russia, but asks “Do you agree that no nuclear power plant units should be built in Hungary from a loan that increases the state debt?”

Together-Dialogue has declared it unacceptable that a decision involving thousands of billions of forints of public funds be struck in secret as a private bargain between two state leaders, and that Parliament was not informed until after the agreement was concluded.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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