The parliamentary group of Fidesz, the Hungarian ruling party, asked the President of the Assembly this Tuesday to take up the issue Ratification of Sweden’s accession to NATO on the agenda for next Monday, February 26th.
It is also very likely that Hungary, the only country that has not yet ratified Sweden’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance, will finally join Green light next week.
Fidesz, led by the Prime Minister, the ultra-nationalist Viktor Orban, It has two thirds of the parliamentary seatshas changed its position by coming out in favor of ratification, which would complete a nearly two-year process in which it postponed the decision.
“The (Fidesz) group would like to support the proposal”said the group’s leader, Máté Kovács, in a letter to Parliament Speaker László Kövér.
Orban himself said this last Saturday Parliament could begin its spring sessions on February 26thVote on Sweden joining the military alliance.
This vote could conclude a long processmarked by constant delays in ratification by Fidesz, whose MPs claimed they could not support Sweden’s accession due to alleged “unfair” criticism from politicians from the Nordic country about the state of democracy in Hungary.
In his letter today Kovács asks that Parliament discuss the issue on the first day of the sessionwhich should be confirmed with the publication of the agenda for this parliamentary day.
Hungary and Turkey have been blocking Sweden’s accession to NATO for more than a year and ever since On January 23rd, the Turkish parliament finally gave the green lightThe Central European country is the only country that has not yet taken this step, despite promising that it would not be “the last to agree”.
Government officials called for “more respect” from Sweden and on February 5, they boycotted an extraordinary session of Parliament called by the opposition to vote on accession. Orban is considered the community leader closest to Russian President Vladimir Putin.