Hungary’s chief prosecutor asks EP to lift immunity of Orbán’s main rival – POLITICO

Hungary’s chief prosecutor has asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity from prosecution of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s main political rival. 

MEP Péter Magyar has faced allegations of theft since an incident at the end of June, less than two weeks after the European Parliament election in which his opposition Tisza (Respect and Freedom) party finished second behind Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party on almost 30 percent support.

The case against Magyar, which arose from a scuffle in a nightclub, has been raised regularly in Hungary’s government-controlled press, which was the first to pick up the story. Now, the country’s Prosecutor General Péter Polt, a former member of Fidesz who has been accused of bias toward the Hungarian government, wants to open criminal proceedings against the MEP.