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Hungary strikes down another Orban policy with vote to stay in ICC

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2024.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2024. © Peter Dejong / AP

Hungary's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to cancel the country's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), as its new pro-EU government dismantles key policies introduced under longtime nationalist leader Viktor Orban.

Orban announced Hungary's withdrawal last year, decrying the tribunal as a "political court". It came during a state visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close Orban ally and the subject of an ICC arrest warrant over Israel's war in Gaza.

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