The judge ruled in a non-binding decision that the Prime Minister’s Office should provide more detailed information about two of the three trips made over the seven days. The Prime Minister’s Office declined to provide details because it said Lázár had participated in the trips in his capacity as state secretary supervising the Information Office, involved in nonmilitary intelligence gathering abroad.

Péter Juhász, co-leader of the opposition E-PM party, called on Premier Viktor Orbán not to include Lázár in his new government. Lázár’s offer to repay the sum to the central budget equals to “admitting to unjustified revelry on the lap of luxury”. He should “make a clear breast” and reveal what exactly he had spent that “pretty sum” on Juhász said.

The leftist Democratic Coalition said that Lázár’s gesture cannot absolve him from the suspicion that he had made a private journey under the pretext of an official mission. But if the trip was legitimate, why would Lázár repay the sum, DK spokesman Zsolt Gréczy asked. Lázár said earlier that he was among the government members who had travelled the least over the past two years.

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