LMP: ruling parties seek to boycott the operation of national security committee

Leaders of the Hungarian parliament should not allow the ruling parties to make the operation of the national security committee impossible, the co-leader and prime ministerial candidate of green opposition LMP said on Saturday.

Speaking at a press conference, Bernadett Szél said the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance was seeking to boycott the work of the national security committee and ban her from it based on “ridiculous and trumped-up accusations”.

Earlier this week, Szilárd Németh, the (Fidesz) deputy head of the committee, said Szél was not welcome at a committee hearing focusing on the “Soros Plan”, arguing that she and her party served the interests of US financier George Soros.

Szél said the “attacks being mounted” against her and her party demonstrated that Fidesz had started a “crackdown on reality”.

Szél said Fidesz had reason “to consider her dangerous”, arguing that she had made the party’s members in the committee sit through “many uncomfortable hours” in recent years by “uncovering the truth”.