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The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has to disclose where J\u00e1nos L\u00e1z\u00e1r stayed on a trip to England in November 2012, which drew attention because of high hotel bills, a court ruled on Thursday. The ruling is not legally binding yet.<\/p>\n
L\u00e1z\u00e1r, the head of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, had three trips that generated unusually high hotel bills. In the case of the other two visits \u2013 to Milan and Zurich \u2013 a legally binding ruling forces the government to reveal the names of the hotels. The execution of this verdict, however, is delayed by a legal review initiated by L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n
In case of the England trip the government\u2019s legal representative argued that its details had been classified. During the trial the judge was given access to the confidential document and concluded that the details of L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s meetings are indeed classified information. The judge also said, however, that the classified document does not include any information about the hotel where L\u00e1z\u00e1r stayed, and therefore that detail does not enjoy any protection.<\/p>\n
The government\u2019s lawyer also argued that disclosure of the hotel\u2019s name will make it possible to identify the city where L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s meetings took place. This information is included in the classified document. This argument was weakened, however, by Mr. L\u00e1z\u00e1r himself. It was him who revealed it in an interview last year that his meetings took place in London.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit was launched by Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151, a reporter of Direkt36, with the legal assistance of Transparency International. Peth\u0151 is being represented in court by D\u00e1niel Karsai, a lawyer.<\/p>\n
L\u00e1z\u00e1r and one of his aides spent two nights in London in November 2012, spending nearly 3 thousand euros on accomodation. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office said that they are unable to tell how much L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s room cost, due to accounting reasons.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister\u2019s Office is likely to appeal the decision on the London trip. Although they have lost every legal battle so far, L\u00e1z\u00e1r has made it clear that he does not want to disclose the hotel names. \u201cThe court cannot verify whether what I say is true, because I can say that I do not remember, or I can say something that is not true about with whom I was in the hotel\u201d, said L\u00e1z\u00e1r earlier on a press conference, according to Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has to disclose where J\u00e1nos L\u00e1z\u00e1r stayed on a trip to England in November 2012, which drew attention because of high hotel bills, a court ruled on Thursday. The ruling is not legally binding yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[522],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lazar-janos-utazasai","author-cap-andraspetho"],"authors":[{"term_id":522,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-andraspetho","display_name":"AndrasPetho","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}