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The vote passed against the recommendation of the immunity committee.
In his address to the session, Magyar asked lawmakers to suspend his immunity, saying he took responsibility for all his actions.
The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the suspension last Tuesday, following the reopening of an investigation prompted by the end of Magyar’s term as a member of the European Parliament.
The investigation concerns an incident in June 2024 when Magyar allegedly took a man’s phone while the man was filming him in a Budapest club and then “deliberately dropped it into the Danube”.
The prosecutor’s office said Magyar’s actions met the legal criteria for theft.
In a video posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Magyar requested parliament immediately suspend his immunity, while criticising the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for requesting the suspension of his immunity and that of Balázs Hankó of opposition Fidesz and Miklós Seszták of the opposition Christian Democrats (KDNP) simultaneously.
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