On Sunday, President Isaac Herzog tasked Eisenkot with trying to form a government. Speaking at the president’s residence, the centrist Yashar party leader called for the formation of a “national emergency government” – an implicit appeal to parties to put ideological differences aside to remove Netanyahu from office. This, he said, would “require creative and
The Hungarian parliament has voted to amend child protection laws, scrapping measures that stigmatise gay and transgender people. LGBTQ and human rights activists warmly welcomed the move, but called for changes to other Orbán-era laws. The 2021 Child Protection Law, passed by the large Fidesz majority of then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, banned the “portrayal or
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a “destructive force” with a migration policy that amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers. Merz was addressing the Bundestag in the aftermath of the anti-immigration party’s sweeping victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it won almost
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
