The Hungarian Constitutional Court has approved the questions of the child protection referendum and overruled the objections filed against it.

The Constitutional Court upheld the resolution of the National Assembly to order a national referendum, the body writes on its website. The court wrote that two petitioners had requested a constitutional review of the four questions of the referendum adopted by Parliament.

The petitioners wanted the Constitutional Court to annul the Parliament’s decision, arguing that the questions accepted for the child protection referendum were unconstitutional, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet writes.

The newly published decision reveals that it is now up to the president of the republic to set the date of the referendum. One of the petitioners objected to the fact that the referendum will reportedly be held on the same day as this year’s parliamentary elections. The Constitutional Court (AB) has indicated that this is not within their competence and that no complaint has been lodged against the amended law allowing for this. The other complaint claimed that the referendum would raise rule of law concerns, which the petitioner said jeopardised the recovery funds from Brussels. The AB ruled this allegation to be hypothetical and noted that it was outside their purview to establish the veracity of the claim.