Opposition group leaders boycotted the Hungarian defence minister’s meeting
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Opposition parliamentary group leaders failed to turn up to a meeting convened by Tibor Benkő, the minister of defence, to discuss a bill on security tasks for protecting the country’s citizens as well as proposed measures during the special legal order connected with the coronavirus epidemic, according to the ministry’s website honvedelem.hu.
The bill’s key points cover crisis response and how state institutions oversee related tasks, as well as the involvement of citizens and businesses in security tasks with a view to enhancing the coordination of alert systems.
The proposed measures also dovetail with NATO and EU crisis response systems, the ministry said on Saturday.
The state’s crisis management system should be up to the task of ensuring the smooth functioning of society without having to introduce extraordinary legal measures, the ministry added.
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Hungary’s various disasters such as the red sludge flooding, the extreme weather in March 2013 which gave rise to the worst flooding on the Danube in a hundred years, as well as mass migration in 2015 and the current coronavirus epidemic provide the basis for a comparative analysis which informed the bill’s creation, it said.