Opposition Momentum politician András Fekete-Győr will transfer his parliamentary mandate to fellow party member and former MEP Katalin Cseh in light of a criminal case that has been dragging on for over six years, the party said on Thursday.
The statement cited Fekete-Győr, commenting on his sentencing, as saying: “I am the first person to receive a political conviction in the period since post-communist transformation, for protesting against the slave law [a 2018 law that law extended overtime employers could demand from 250 to 400 hours while allowing them to delay payment by three years] … in a way that the power-holders didn’t like.”
He said that he had received a suspended prison sentence from “the regime”, even though he had not harmed anyone or caused any material damage. The case, he added, revealed how “politically motivated, sham criminal proceedings work in the [PM Viktor] Orbán regime”.
Photo: www.facebook.com/Cseh Katalin
Momentum called it “unprecedented since post-communist transformation” that a lawmaker had lost their mandate for protesting against those in power.
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Hungary is a dictatorship that uses a party controlled judicial system to poltically persecute dissidents. If you protest you face possible persecution by the state including loss of employment, tax department harassment, and jail time. The whole Rule Of Law dispute with the EU is no joke. If Hungary was not in the EU political persecution of all opposition to the government would be much worse than it already is as Hungary slides into the Russian orbit.