In an extraordinary session on Tuesday, parliament will discuss amendments to legislation tied to requirements for accessing withheld European Union funding, among other bills, and will also commemorate the re-burial of martyred 1956 prime minister Imre Nagy.
According to the agenda published on parliament’s website, the session will start at 9am with a commemoration of the martyrs of the 1956 uprising, who were executed on June 16, 1958 and re-buried in a symbolic act of the regime change on June 16, 1989.
The extraordinary session is being held so that parliament can vote on five legislation proposals. Pushing them to the autumn session “would delay the implementation of important legislation,” according to a cabinet statement earlier, the Hungarian news agency wrote.
The proposals would tighten regulations on asset declarations and their oversight by widening the competencies of the Integrity Authority and other measures. It also proposes dismantling public asset management foundations and amending the law on criminal procedures to tighten anti-corruption actions.
The amendment would allow Hungary to fulfil the super-milestones set out in the EU’s Reconstruction and Resilience Facility before the deadline.
The session will also table amendment proposals to a cooperation agreement between Hungary and Slovakia on the construction and operation of carbohydrate pipelines between the two countries, as well as a proposal on scrapping teachers’ performance evaluation in its current form.
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