Video: Hungary 2018 Election Roundup
- 7 Apr 2018 4:00 PM
MTI Photo: Szecsődi Balázs
MTI Photo: Szecsődi Balázs
Reporters from independent media outlets and foreign media representatives have been refused permits to attend Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s state of the nation speech at the Várkert Bazár.
A liberal analyst believes the opposition’s job is to pinpoint Prime Minister Orbán as the main cause of the paedophile pardon scandal, while the government side will try to use its media power to defend itself. A pro-government pundit writes that the events have shown Fidesz’s moral superiority.
The European Commission has sent a letter of formal notice to Hungary, launching an infringement procedure over the country’s Sovereignty Protection Act.
The Momentum party assembly elected MEP Anna Donáth head of the party on Sunday. In her speech to the assembly, Donáth said Momentum was a “liberal, freedom-loving party with an unshakeable belief in human dignity.”
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