SaS: Gal's bill on cleansing judiciary 'woefully insufficient'

The opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on Friday expressed its disappointment with Justice Minister Gabor Gal's motion that should cleanse the judiciary, stating that the minister had presented very few changes. According to Gal, the motion, which still has not been addressed in Parliament, reads that if the justice minister or the Supreme Court head files a criminal complaint over an intentional criminal act against a specific judge, they can ask the Judicial Council to temporarily suspend the judge in question. If it is someone else that files the criminal complaint, the consequences at the Judicial Council would not be the same, however. Furthermore, if a judge's activities in society are questionable, the Judicial Council would also be eligible to suspend them.