LMP will seek to collect the fifty supporting signatures needed from lawmakers at Friday’s extraordinary parliamentary session.

The law passed by parliament violates the affected organisations’ right to their good reputation and includes discriminative passages by stating that European Union support for NGOs is classified as foreign support unless a Hungarian budgetary organisation grants it, Szél said.

It also includes discriminative measures linked to fundamental rights connected to the private sphere, she added.

Some NGOs still do not know whether the law applies to them because it includes a vague definition about what counts as support, and it is therefore unclear on what basis an NGO would be included in the list of foreign-funded organisations, she said. Meanwhile, Szél said that all LMP lawmakers would attend Friday’s extraordinary session convened to debate a Fidesz motion to ban political billboard advertising outside the campaign period, but they would not support any amendment that works in the ruling party’s favour.

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