Mi Hazánk Leader Banned From Parliament for Calling Magyar a 'Disgusting Worm'
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The atmosphere in Hungary's parliament is starting to thicken. The leader of the Our Fatherland opposition movement, László Toroczkai, called Prime Minister Péter Magyar (Tisza) a “cowardly vile worm”. Parliament Speaker Ágnes Forsthoffer (Tisza) expelled him from a session of the legislature for this for a week.
László Toroczkai, the leader of the Our Hungary faction, has been expelled from this week's session of the National Assembly. According to the Speaker of the House, Ágnes Forsthoffer, Toroczkai used terms in his speech that seriously violated human dignity and a fundamental right guaranteed in the Basic Law.
"There is a lot that goes into freedom of expression, but what we heard today is not tolerable."
The Speaker wrote that the leader of the Our Country faction "violated a fundamental right guaranteed in the Fundamental Law by using unacceptable expressions."
The autumn session of the National Assembly has begun. This morning, the Vasárnap.hu staff asked ruling and opposition MPs whether they considered it justified that László Toroczkai, the leader of the Mi Hazánk faction, cannot participate in today's session. The ruling politicians clearly supported the Speaker's decision. As they said, the tone that Toroczkai used in the previous session is unacceptable in the National Assembly. … The post Lászl…
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