Hungary moves to charge former PMs

Article reports that Hungary’s government was trying to introduce legislation in 2011 that would allow the state to charge three former prime ministers with 'criminal' mismanagement of economic policy after the national debt spiralled upwards in the last decade.

The centre-right Fidesz government was said to be targeting three former socialist premiers who goverened from 2002-10, and potentially their finance ministers. State debt rose over that period from 53% of gross domestic product to 80%.

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