Lebanon’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, a move that would make it the first country in the Middle East to formally end capital punishment. A majority of MPs in the 128-seat parliament backed the measure on Tuesday, while Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc voted against it. The legislation will now go to the cabinet
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has agreed to resign and signed an amendment to the country’s constitution that will end his presidency at midnight Sunday. Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party had pushed the law change in parliament to oust Sulyok, widely considered loyal to former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after
The Hungarian parliament voted to remove President Tamás Sulyok, who was widely seen as a loyalist to former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years. Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party used its two-thirds majority to approve the 17th amendment to the Constitution, ending the mandate of Sulyok and Constitutional