«We learn that the Hungarian executive – comments Michele Rizzitiello, provincial secretary of Sinistra Italiana Piacenza – through his head of cabinet Gergely Gulyás, intends to request the revocation of the immunity of the new MEP Ilaria Salis. The declarations of the Orban government official reveal how evident is the anti-democratic grip on the Hungarian institutions by a discredited majority now evidently outside the rule of law, something also stigmatized at European level by many representatives of the same Parliament in which the Honorable Member must sit Salis. Gulyás’ words demonstrate that the decision to condemn Ilaria Salis has already been taken in defiance of the separation of judicial and executive power in that country: “Sending a criminal to the European Parliament is not good for either the Parliament itself or the voters who have thought a criminal should be sent to Parliament.” Final sentence already issued, according to him. Sinistra Italiana Piacenza will forward a strong protest through its representatives in Strasbourg to reject this attack on the rights established at community level by an anti-democratic government which treats the accused as we all saw in the Budapest courtroom, violates human rights and does not apply the EU directives, see the one that establishes the presumption of innocence for the accused, a directive which is a binding legal norm and refers to all member countries”.
