“The international Left is again attacking Hungary on the basis of false claims,” said a statement by ruling Fidesz.
Zsolt Németh, Head of the Hungarian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and delegation member Lőrinc Nacsa, said in a joint statement the leftist majority of the assembly, “supported by Hungary’s leftist representatives”, had adopted a report on Hungary earlier in the day which they said was a “biased, political indictment riddled with factual mistakes”. The report, they insisted, was aimed at making Hungary scrap its child protection law. The report “is in conflict with the CoE’s goals and hinders dialogue based on mutual respect”, the representatives said.