
(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, JUN 4 - Hungary's ruling party on Wednesday said it was delaying next week's vote on a law that would allow the government to sanction "foreign-funded" NGOs and media that has drawn protests. Critics consider the bill "on transparency in public life" as the latest attempt by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban to muzzle dissenting voices since returning to power in 2010. In the latest protest against the law, thousands marched in silence, many with their mouths taped shut, in central Budapest Sunday. A vote on the planned law was scheduled to take place next week, but Orban's ruling Fidesz said it would take "longer to process the substantive comments received". (ANSA-AFP).