Overview

• The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee is scheduled to vote on 23 September on a report by Adrián Vázquez Lázara concerning Hungary’s request to revoke Salis’s parliamentary immunity, with the ballot likely to be secret.
• The committee outcome will strongly influence a 7 October vote in the full chamber, where the stance of the European People’s Party— including Italy’s Forza Italia— is viewed as pivotal.
• Analyses cited in the coverage say Salis would likely retain protection only if roughly one-third of EPP members back her case or abstain in the plenary.
• If immunity is lifted, Hungarian authorities could seek her re-arrest and resume the Budapest trial, and an international arrest warrant is considered a possible next step.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán publicly labeled Salis a “terrorist” and his spokesman posted coordinates of a high-security prison, drawing responses in Italy, as the committee also prepares to weigh an immunity case involving Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar.