The Speaker of the Parliament did not give an exact timetable for the vote. On Tuesday, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party rejected the opposition’s request for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the issue.
Turkey the speaker of the parliament, i.e. the great national assembly Numan Kurtulmuş intends to send Sweden’s NATO ratification to the foreign affairs committee for consideration on Wednesday, reports news agency Reuters.
According to a parliamentary source interviewed by Reuters, Kurtulmuş will send the matter to the foreign affairs committee after he returns to Turkey from his visit to Prague, Czech Republic.
Kurtulmuş also announced this at a press conference in Prague, tells Turkish state news agency Anadolu Ajansı.
Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan moved Sweden’s NATO membership application for ratification by his country’s parliament on Monday.
Kurtulmuş did not give a timetable for the progress of the matter in the parliament.
“I hope that the matter will go to the general assembly of the parliament as soon as possible and the legislators will make their decision,” Kurtulmuş said, according to Anadolu Ajansı.
Turkey in addition, Hungary must accept Sweden’s membership. Swedish public radio SVT reported on Tuesdaythat the Hungarian opposition party proposes a vote on Sweden’s NATO membership for next week.
Member of Parliament Ágnes Vadai told news agency TT on Tuesday that Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party rejected the opposition’s request to hold an extra meeting to discuss the matter.
The social democratic opposition party MSZP proposed calling the country’s parliament to an extra session next week to deal with the ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership.
The next regular session week starts on November 6.
When Turkey accepted Finland as a member of NATO in March, the matter was discussed in the foreign affairs committee about a week before the parliamentary vote.
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