FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during the celebrations of the 62nd anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, in Budapest, Hungary, October 23, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government set out plans on Tuesday to create new administrative courts overseen by the justice minister - a move the leftist opposition has said will limit the independence of the judiciary.
The courts will deal with lawsuits about government business that are currently covered in the general legal system, according to the text of a bill to set them up posted on parliament's website. Lawmakers will debate it later this year.
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