Overview

• Ilaria Salis faces a Legal Affairs Committee vote on whether to revoke her parliamentary immunity, a nonbinding step before a plenary ruling expected in early October.
• Current committee arithmetic shows 11 members prepared to defend her immunity and seven likely to back revocation, leaving seven EPP votes decisive.
• A draft by rapporteur Adrián Vázquez Lázara noting an absence of fumus persecutionis has triggered dissent within the EPP.
• The Salis vote will be taken alongside a separate case involving Hungarian MEP Péter Magyar, adding political pressure linked to Hungary’s election climate.
• Salis says she wants to stand trial in Italy rather than Hungary, citing intimidation by Hungarian officials, and she urges Italian authorities to act under rules that can allow prosecution for alleged crimes committed abroad; if her immunity is lifted, Hungary could seek a European arrest warrant, which would not automatically mean extradition.