Hungarian parliament fails to approve Sweden's NATO membership due to boycott of ruling parties

The Hungarian Parliament at its extraordinary meeting, convened at the initiative of the opposition, was unable to vote on the admission of Sweden to NATO, Report informs via TASS.

The faction of the ruling party FIDES - Hungarian Civil Union and their junior partners in the person of the Christian Democrats boycotted the meeting, and there was no quorum at it.

The agenda in which the deputies from the opposition proposed to include the issue of Sweden's entry into the North Atlantic Alliance did not gain sufficient number of votes. The meeting, which was broadcast on the website of the parliament, was reduced to an exchange of views between representatives of opposition parties on several issues of domestic and foreign policy.