Fidesz politician: Legality of Serbia elections can’t be questioned
Possible irregularities that may have been experienced in Serbia’s early parliamentary elections this month did not reach a level that would warrant questioning the legitimacy of the vote, the head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee said in Strasbourg on Monday.
Zsolt Németh told MTI by phone on day one of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that it would be “preferable if certain political forces didn’t question the legitimacy of the vote in Serbia just because it was won by a political side that they don’t sympathise with”.
He praised the recent achievements of the CoE, namely the relations it has fostered with the opposition in Russia and Belarus as well as its contributions to the representation of human and minority rights in Ukraine despite the war.
He said that without the CoE’s contributions, it would have been impossible to achieve “even the relative improvement” that has been Ukraine’s amendment of its minority law. He added that while the amendment was “an important step in an encouraging direction”, it was not enough, and more efforts would need to be made to restore the rights of Transcarpathian Hungarians and other national minorities in Ukraine.
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Concerning the Israel-Palestine conflict, Németh said it was “regrettable” that the Hamas terrorist group’s attack on Israel could not have been prevented, that there was no progress in ending the war, and that anti-Semitism was on the rise again in Europe.
Meanwhile, Németh said he was hopeful of good cooperation with newly-elected PACE President Theodoros Roussopoulos based on the new president’s inaugural speech on Monday. He said he had supported Roussopoulos in the hope that the new president would be a partner in the enforcement of human and minority rights norms.
Németh also told MTI that he had been re-elected deputy leader of PACE’s conservative group.
Source: MTI
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Overview of how the Serbian elections went down from Reuters – not all plain sailing (but obviously good enough for Mr. Németh):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbian-elections-marred-by-presidents-involvement-vote-buying-observers-2023-12-18/
Interestingly enough: so, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) gets a swipe from our Politicians. Predominantly Russia has a bit of a history with the OSCE when it comes to this – with similar allegations!
The Serbian secret police arrested one of the opposition leaders, took him to a military prison and beat him until he suffered a stroke and became paralyzed on one side of his body. Everything is questionable about the Serbian regime and the elections. Fidesz politicians have wet dreams about bringing in another mini-Russia into the EU. It’s not going to happen. Serbia is a violent morass of corruption, FSB operatives and a form of Nazism.
EU countries have a hard time accepting election results that do not support their pseudo communist values.