Hungary's parliament will not ratify Sweden's NATO membership before the summer recess as it has not included the vote in the agenda of next week's session, Hungarian online media reported on Wednesday.
News websites hvg.hu and index.hu reported that parliament, dominated by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, would further delay the vote after previously citing a deterioration in relations with Sweden.
Parliament's press office did not confirm the reports, saying the agenda of next week's session would be finalised at a meeting of the house committee on Thursday. In a Facebook post, leftist opposition lawmaker Agnes Vadai said Orban would not put the vote on Sweden's NATO accession on next week's agenda. The Swedish Foreign Ministry did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Sweden and Finland abandoned decades of military non-alignment in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, seeking greater security by joining NATO. Finland became a NATO member in April but the process has been slower for Sweden.
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