Jobbik Leader Jakab to Run in Pre-selection Vote for Opposition PM Candidate
Jobbik leader Péter Jakab announced he would run in the pre-selection process to determine who will become the joint opposition parties’ candidate for Prime Minister at the upcoming 2022 general elections. Jobbik is the first party of the joint opposition to nominate their candidate for the pre-selection vote.
Péter Jakab announced to become Jobbik’s nominee for the pre-selection process in his annual evaluation video uploaded to Facebook on Monday.
2020 is the beginning of the end for the [Orbán] government, with the opportunity for the country to start over, said Jakab, adding that during the pre-selection people are to decide who will be worthy to defeat Fidesz.
A siege on the U.S. Capitol, a strike against democracy worldwide
Anthony Faiola, Shibani Mahtani and Isabelle Khurshudyan, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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Then came the siege on the U.S. Capitol.
The 22-year-old student activist watched in shock from his hometown in western Venezuela last week as a mob inspired by President Donald Trump invaded Congress to attempt to overturn an election loss. Barragán could not pull away from the YouTube images showing the pro-Trump marauders acting very much like Maduro s colectivos - the extraofficial thugs that keep opponents in check and a dictator in charge. Our main ally in the fight for democracy has tumbled, Barragán said. What does that mean for us?
Vaccinations in Hungary proceed slowly amid confusion over rollout plan
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Vaccinations against the coronavirus proceeded slowly in Hungary this week as signs indicated a lack of sufficient planning and organization to administer greater quantities of the vaccine as they become available.
Deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine continued to arrive in small quantities, with a new shipment of 39,000 doses arriving on Tuesday. Nearly 160,000 doses of the vaccine have been delivered to Hungary so far, enough to inoculate around 79,000 people with the two-step injection. As of Wednesday, 21,000 healthcare workers had been vaccinated since December 26 at the country s 25 injection sites, a relatively low number one prominent infectious diseases expert said could be due to the high level of vaccine skepticism in Hungary including among healthcare workers.
Fidesz-KDNP members of the Parliament’s Committee on Justice eventually voted down the proposal that many grew to dub as “Lex Szijjártó.” After the Foreign Minister’s controversial luxury yacht trip, independent MP Bernadett Szél sought to exclude those businessmen who give luxury gifts to government members from public bids.
According to the proposal initiated by independent MP Bernadett Szél (formerly the leader of green party LMP), businessmen giving luxury gifts to government members would be excluded from public bids for five years. In addition, such “gifts” (if their value surpasses a quarter of their parliamentary base salary) should be listed in asset declarations even if they were received as a ‘private person.’ In addition, according to Szél’s initiative, the law would apply to leaders of state firms as well.