Parliamentarians from FIDESZ, Hungary’s ruling party, want to postpone next week’s parliament session, which would mean a new delay in the ratification of Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, Reuters reported, according to News.ro.

Agnes Vadai, an MP from the Democratic Coalition (left opposition), said on Facebook on Tuesday that she had received a letter from Deputy Prime Minister Zholt Semien saying that the ruling FIDESZ party wanted to postpone the session that was due to start . on Monday.

The ruling FIDESZ party confirmed to Reuters that parliament would not hold a meeting next week due to “delayed negotiations with Brussels”.

Hungary is in a dispute with the European Commission, which blocked its funds due to a lack of reforms to ensure the rule of law.

“The parliamentary group (FIDESZ) will make a decision on the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO after the delegation of parliamentarians (who visited the two countries) presents a report on this visit,” the press service of FIDESZ said.

The press service of the Parliament of Budapest declined to comment. The parliament can meet again only on March 27, Reuters reports.

Sweden and Finland applied to join the transatlantic military alliance last year after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. All 30 NATO members must ratify the requests, and only Hungary and Turkey have not.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s FIDESZ party has said it plans to support ratification, but last week Fidesz lawmaker Csaba Hende said more needed to be done to address the concerns of some of his fellow lawmakers.

Hungary’s ratification process has been blocked by parliament since July, and in February Orbán accused Finland and Sweden of spreading “brazen lies” about democracy and the rule of law in Hungary.

Last week, FIDES MPs said during a visit to Finland and Sweden that they could not say when the NATO membership of these two Scandinavian countries would be ratified by Budapest.

Sweden and Finland officially signed protocols to join the North Atlantic alliance on July 5 last year, but all 30 NATO member states must ratify their requests through a vote in their national parliaments.

Only Turkey and Hungary have not done this so far.