Hungary Votes on Finland's NATO Membership on This Date

The leader of the "Fidesz" party, Mateusz Kuczkis, announced on his Facebook account that the Hungarian parliament will vote on Finland's membership in NATO on March 27. As for Sweden, its membership will be determined at a later time. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had announced that Turkey would begin parliamentary procedures to ratify Finland's NATO membership request, not Sweden's, thus removing the biggest remaining obstacle to the alliance's expansion amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. Earlier, representatives of the Christian Democratic People's Party alliance - "Fidesz," which holds 133 out of 199 seats in parliament, stated their support for the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO, which was opposed by the right-wing party "Mi Hazank," which holds 6 seats in parliament.