Ministers 'should be tested for madness'

A Hungarian MP wants potential government ministers to be tested for madness before they are appointed to office.

A Hungarian MP wants potential government ministers to be tested for madness before they are appointed to office.

Independent MP Lukacs Szabo also wants existing ministers to be examined by psychiatrists at least once a year.

He says that they should be tested if they show signs of going mad and that they should be banned from office if tests confirm suspicions.

He said: "These people have the fates of 10 million people in their hands and we cannot afford the risk that they could be mentally ill".

His bill, due to be presented within the next week, proposes that any MP "lacking in mental capacity" would be banned from holding a ministerial post.

Opposition Free Democrat MP Gabor Horn said: "I think someone should take Szabo to see a psychiatrist if he comes up with ideas like this one.

"I thought only the communists tried to put opponents in mental institutions".

The Government has refused to comment on the idea.

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