The ruling parties, which have two-thirds of the votes, boycotted the extraordinary meeting, RIA Novosti notes.
The meeting was declared invalid at the stage of approving the agenda: a quorum was required to approve the topics of the meeting. The ruling parties have 133 seats out of 199 in parliament; they were not present at the meeting. There were 51 deputies in the hall at that moment, and 148 were absent.
US Ambassador to Budapest David Pressman noted that the American authorities are disappointed that Hungary has delayed the process of ratifying Sweden's accession to NATO.