Hungary’s opposition will have more vice-presidential posts in the National Assembly than it has had so far, despite Tisza’s ruling majority now being the largest compared to previous election cycles. Tisza’s candidate for the post of Prime Minister Péter Magyar said this after Friday’s preparatory meeting of the constituent session of the Parliament at a press conference broadcast live on his YouTube channel, reports the TASR correspondent in Budapest.
- The Hungarian opposition will get more vice-presidential positions in the parliament than before.
- The ruling Tisza party currently has the largest parliamentary majority in history.
- The deputy speakers of the parliament will be nominated by Fidesz, KDNP and the Mi Hazánk movement.
- The Tisza party is represented in the negotiations by its chairman and prime ministerial candidate Péter Magyar.
- The National Assembly must be established no later than the twelfth of May of this year.
Fidesz, KDNP and Mi Hazánk will be able to nominate the vice-presidents of the legislature, although Fidesz and KDNP have so far functioned as one unit of the government bloc. Magyar recalled that in the previous election period there were six deputy speakers of the parliament and four of them were delegated by the Fidesz-KDNP bloc.
At the meeting representatives of the hitherto non-parliamentary party Tisza, the government bloc Fidesz–KDNP and the movement of our homeland (Mi Hazánk Mozgalom) took part.
Tisza’s delegation was led by the party’s candidate for the post of prime minister and party chairman Peter Magyar, to the Fidesz delegation, the head of the office of the outgoing government Gergely Gulyás and Hnutie naša vlast was represented by its chairman László Toroczkai.
The topic of the meeting was also procedural issues, meeting rules, preparation for the election of parliamentary officials and the creation of a system of parliamentary committees. The Parliament will be created no later than May 12, because the constituent session of the National Assembly is called by the President of the Republic within thirty days of the date of the elections.
