Foreign Minister Anita Orbán is proposing to revoke 943 diplomatic passports that were not issued to diplomats automatically, based on their status, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The government last week instructed the foreign minister to review diplomatic passports that were not issued to diplomats automatically as a matter of right, Vanda Szondi said. Based on this, 1,131 diplomatic passports and 191 service passports were reviewed, she said. The foreign minister proposed revoking 776 diplomatic passports and 167 service passports, the Hungarian News Agency wrote.
Szondi said Justice Minister Márta Görög is working to determine, while ensuring compliance with privacy rules, to what extent the identities of those who received such passports can be revealed.
Yesterday, PM Péter Magyar said in Parliament that too many diplomatic passports had been issued, and that some had been given to relatives of politicians, which could not be tolerated.
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