Opposition Jobbik deputy speaker calls for special cttee meeting over Belarus

Deputy speaker of parliament Koloman Brenner, of opposition Jobbik, has initiated a special meeting of parliament's foreign affairs committee to hear Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on the situation in Belarus. Brenner told a press conference on Tuesday that he had submitted a draft for a committee position in which parliament calls on the government to "express support immediately and without hesitation for the freedom and independence of the people of Belarus and for repeating the elections in a free and democratic manner". Jobbik considers civic democratic values and freedom very important, which includes holding fair elections without fraud and violence, he said.