Hungarian Speaker of Parliament Kövér calls on Metsola to help ‘prevent undemocratic procedures’ in EP
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Speaker of Parliament László Kövér on Monday sent a letter to Roberta Metsola, the newly re-elected President of the European Parliament, congratulating her and asking for her cooperation in “preventing undemocratic procedures in the European Parliament”.
Kövér calls on Metsola to help
Kövér said he agreed with Metsola that parliamentarism needed to be strengthened in Europe, adding that this aim “coincides with the long-standing aspiration of national parliaments to play a greater role in EU decision-making.”
Referring to the Patriots for Europe party group, he said the Hungarian public was “shocked” upon learning that “in violation of the rules of parliamentary democracy and written European law, [the EP] ignored the will of some 18 million European voters and failed to allocate to the third largest political group in the European Parliament any of the vice-presidential or committee office-holder seats that this political group is entitled to according to established practice.”
Kövér said the Hungarian public and MEPs of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat parties “had hoped that, moving beyond the European Parliament’s practices experienced so many times over the past five years, the newly formed European Parliament would value the unity of Europe and break away from the practice of stigmatizing and attempting to exclude those countries, parties, and their MEPs whose opinions and positions, based on democratic mandate, differ on certain issues from the majority view of the European Parliament.”
“Madam President! Since 1990, […] it has been an uninterrupted practice in the Hungarian National Assembly that the parties that have won seats in Parliament by democratic mandate fill parliamentary offices in proportion to their seats. Any politician who has confidence in the democratic values of European popular representation and in the much-vaunted rule of law must ask whether the leadership of the European Parliament considers this exclusionary and divisive situation to be good practice,” Kövér said.
The E.U. is a sham. There is nothing democratic about it. Its most powerful people and institutions are completely unelected. The organs that are elected are a joke, in too many ways to count. The whole thing is corrupt, autocratic, endlessly bureaucratic, and exorbitantly expensive. Now they want their army but you can be sure it won’t be used to repel invaders, including illegal aliens strangling the continent; it’ll be used against its own people. Tolerance, pluralism, and democracy in name only. Get ready for 1956 all over again.