Socialists request constitutional review of Lake Balaton construction regs

The opposition Socialist Party has said it will ask the Constitutional Court to retrospectively review a section of a law on the protection of the Lake Balaton area that allows construction around the lake to be regulated by government and ministerial decrees. Socialist Party director Zsolt Molnar told a press conference on Wednesday that the government was taking advantage of this clause and endangering the natural environment around the lake while "transferring properties to their buddies".