Parliament is expected to make decisions on cutting lawmakers’ salaries and on suspending procedures against FX loan holders on Monday.
The two-day session of parliament will start at 1pm on Monday, according to the agenda published on Parliament’s website. Parliament will vote on the leadership and members of four committees investigating irregularities at the National Bank of Hungary, wildcat privatisations and the loss of public assets, those responsible for the presidential pardon granted to a man convicted for aiding child abuse, and the one probing the systemic crisis of the child protection system, the Hungarian news agency wrote.
The decision regarding the committee investigating bailiff procedures, to which Prime Minister Péter Magyar has proposed appointing Our Homeland leader László Toroczkai, will be made at a later date.
Lawmakers will also deviate from house rules to debate amendments aiming to cut the costs of parliament’s operations. The bill submitted by Andrea Bujdosó, the leader of the Tisza parliamentary group, and lawmaker Kinga Kalázdi-Kerekes is proposing a sizeable cut to the salaries and benefits of lawmakers as well as to the funding of parliamentary groups. The honorarium of lawmakers may fall by as much as 40 percent.
Parliament will also debate and vote on a bill submitted by István Hantosi and Márton Melléthei-Barna of Tisza, proposing to suspend foreign currency loan lawsuits as well as enforcement proceedings initiated in foreign currency loan cases.
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Speaker Forsthoffer calls for review of asset declarations
A review of the system of the asset declarations of MPs and key officials is crucial “not only to ensure increased transparency and to meet a public demand for information but also to meet requirements to access European Union funding,” Ágnes Forsthoffer, the speaker of parliament, said on Facebook on Monday.
“The financial situation or an increase in the assets of anyone cannot be ascertained by way of the declarations because the provision of data is obsolete and deficient, failing to allow for a year-to-year comparison or ensure transparency,” she said.
“It is clear that the current system was designed to serve a corrupt ruling class,” Forsthoffer sais, adding that the next declarations, to be submitted early next year, should be completed in a new mechanism.
Forsthoffer also said most of her Tisza Party’s deputies were “professionals that started a political career with stable finances; they have come to serve rather than to get rich.”
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