House speaker calls plenary session over Liget project for July 20
Budapest, July 15 (MTI) – The house speaker has convened a plenary session of parliament for next Wednesday at an opposition sponsored initiative over the contested Liget project in Budapest.
László Kövér has called the session in line with the law as an initiative submitted by the co-leader of the Dialogue for Hungary (PM) party last week has garnered the support of one-fifth of lawmakers, Lajos Kósa, the group leader of ruling Fidesz, told a press conference on Friday.
The initiative was supported by deputies of the Socialist Party, green LMP and radical nationalist Jobbik, Kósa said.
In her initiative, PM co-leader TÃmea Szabó called for scrapping the law that gave the green light to the contested Liget project in City Park.
The law passed by parliament in 2013 declares the Liget project, which involves building a new museum complex in City Park next to Heroes’ Square, a priority state project.
Environmentalists have been protesting for months against what they fear would be a harmful transformation of the popular public park.
Kósa said that Fidesz would be represented at the July 20 session by only one of its parliamentary group members as the party “does not want to assist with the opposition’s charade.”
He argued that there had not been any new circumstances that would require scrapping the 2013 law.
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Source: MTI