Overview

• Parliament’s legal affairs committee rejected Hungary’s request to lift Salis’s immunity by 13–12 in a secret ballot, overruling rapporteur Adrián Vázquez Lázara, who called the move a bad precedent.
• The full European Parliament will decide on 7 October in Strasbourg, likely by show of hands unless a secret ballot is requested under the rules.
• Italian right‑wing parties Lega and Fratelli d’Italia denounced the outcome and pressed for a reversal in plenary, while Hungary’s government condemned the decision and the rapporteur predicted Budapest may appeal to the EU court.
• Salis maintains she is not seeking to evade justice, and her lawyers urged Italy’s justice minister to request a trial in Italy, arguing Italian jurisdiction could apply.
• The committee also declined to lift immunity for Péter Magyar and Klára Dobrev, prompting unconfirmed talk of cross‑party trade‑offs, and reports suggest at least two PPE members broke ranks though their identities remain unverified.