EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Rule of law

European Parliament calls for strong action against Hungary, which has become “an electoral autocracy”

Strasbourg, 15/09/2022 (Agence Europe)

Hungary, which has become a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy, can no longer be considered a democracy like any other. This is the message that MEPs passed by a wide margin on Thursday 15 September in Strasbourg, adopting by 433 votes to 123 with 28 abstentions the interim report on the so-called ‘Article 7’ procedure against Hungary, tabled by the French MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Greens/EFA).

For the Greens/EFA MEP, the Hungarian ‘case’ poses a real democratic problem,...