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A New Parliament Has Started Work In Hungary

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A New Parliament Has Started Work In Hungary

The EU flag has been returned to the building.

Hungary's newly elected parliament, in which Peter Magyar's Tisa party has an absolute majority, convened for its inaugural session on May 9, European Truth reports.

On Saturday, May 9, Hungary's new parliament, elected in elections on April 12, convened for its first session. The opposition Tisa is now known to have an absolute majority in it.

The government of Péter Magyar is due to be approved on the same day.

The parliament has already elected Tisza representative Agnesh Forsthoffer as speaker, as well as deputy speakers, of whom almost all are Tisza representatives-one from the now opposition Fidesz, one from the Christian Democratic People's Party KDNP, and one from the far-right MI Hazánk.

One of the new speaker's first decisions was to return the EU flag to the parliament building - for the first time in 12 years.

The previous longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban, is absent from the inaugural session; former Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is present in the hall.

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