Socialists to submit complaint over speaker’s rejection of bill to repeal higher education law

Budapest, April 26 (MTI) – The Socialist Party will submit a complaint to parliament’s justice committee after House Speaker László Kövér rejected their proposal to repeal the amended law on higher education which regulates the operations of foreign universities in Hungary, the party’s group leader said on Wednesday.

Bertalan Tóth told a press conference that Kövér had rejected the party’s proposal on the grounds that it “hurts the dignity of parliament”. Tóth described Köver’s justification as “contrived and totally see-through”.

Tóth said the speaker had not given them a proper reason for the proposal’s rejection. The group leader said the reason why their bill had been rejected was likely that its justification says: “By signing ‘lex CEU’, [President] János Áder lost his standing as president and has become an embarrassment… ”