BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — With Turkey completing its ratification of Sweden's bid to join NATO, Hungary is the last member of the military alliance not to have given its approval.
Orbán has long promised that Hungary wouldn't be the last NATO member to ratify Sweden's request to join the alliance.
Yet Orbán's critics say that there is no such schism within his party, and that when it comes to Hungary's approval of Sweden's NATO membership, Orbán alone is in control.
Hungary's opposition parties, which favor Sweden's membership in NATO, have made several attempts over the past year to schedule a vote on the matter.
“Anybody who believed that it’s in the hands of the governing party lawmakers was seriously mistaken,” she said.
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