Video: Orban Fans Pack Streets Ahead Of Election
- 15 Mar 2018 4:00 PM
MTI Photo: Balogh Zoltán
MTI Photo: Balogh Zoltán
Parliament has adopted legislation granting Hungarian tax and customs authority NAV power to investigate the matter of the Ukrainian cash and gold, which was halted in transit in Hungary last week.
The pro-government Civil Union Forum (CÖF) and its associated Civil Union Foundation (CÖKA) have officially announced a "Peace March" (Békemenet) to be held on the March 15 national holiday. The organization’s leader, László Csizmadia, confirmed on Tuesday that the police have been notified of the plans for the demonstration, which traditionally draws hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Orbán administration.
Janos Hajdu, director-general of Hungary’s counter-terrorism force TEK and a former chief bodyguard of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was added on Friday to the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) website, a database of Ukraine’s enemies run by civilian activists.
The Democratic Coalition (DK) has submitted the required number of nominations in more than 71 single-member constituencies by Tuesday, qualifying it to field a national list in the parliamentary election, the leftist opposition party's press office said in a statement.
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