Clean election in jeopardy, says EP head of EP delegation in Budapest (video)
Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield told Euronews that “there is a kind of one-party system in Hungary”.
The European Parliament visited his delegation in Hungary last week next year’s election cannot be chosen fair if the opposition does not get enough space in the public media, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield said in Strasbourg Euronewsthey reported in the EP about the experience of their trip to Budapest.
The delegation of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs is aware of past information about the enforcement of the rule of law in Hungary or the freedom of the press and academia in Budapest.
“Hungary has a one-party system.”
The head of the delegation, quoting a right-wing MP from Euronews, said that in Hungary there was a kind of “There is a one-party system”. That “A single party has appointed its people everywhere, from the media, to the judiciary to the university, meaning it can control a lot of things in elections.” Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield explained.
The politician hopes the election will be fair to do so, but this questionability is made possible by that “The opposition never gets time in the public service media, it can never reach the voters because it doesn’t include TV, on the radio. It can only be found in independent, alternative media. ”. All this, he says “Persuade real fair elections”.
The French MEP said that LGBT rights and immigration were not the main topics in their delegation’s discussions.
Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield said there was a lot of false news about their trip.
“The misinformation is huge, terrible things have been written about us, and the whole European Parliament has been attacked in the pro-government Hungarian press, we have been described as what we are not. Nor does it help people know why and what they are voting for. “ he said.
The rule of law is indisputable and has no further definitions
According to the French MEP, one of the reasons for the protracted conflict between the EU and Hungary is that, according to the Hungarian government, the rule of law is a debatable issue with several definitions. Delbos-Corfield emphasized that in fact ‘the European Union is based on texts and charters which show that these aspects of the rule of law are indisputable and cannot be defined differently ‘. He added that
when the government says it does not agree with our definition, it is difficult to work together from there.
The two far-right MEPs who publicly spoke in support of the Hungarian government, from Nicolas Bay in France and Jorge Buxadé Villalba in Spain, emphasized that they did not attend meetings many times or arrived later, how they left and had separate discussions with with pro-government actors. Therefore, they cannot be considered neutral, Delbos-Corfield pointed out.
Based on the experience of the Green Party politician, the delegation will submit a report on Hungary to the European Parliament in December.