Hungary fired the director of the National Weather Agency and Deputy, the reason is considered to be false forecasting, affecting the Government's decision.

Hungarian Technology Minister Lazlo Piskovics on August 22 dismissed the Director of the National Meteorological Agency (NMS) Kornelia Radics and Deputy Gyula Horvath but did not state the specific reason.

The decision was made one day after the Hungarian government media criticized NMS for the wrong forecast that the fireworks event on August 20 was canceled.

The Hungarian Technology Ministry does not respond to comments from AFP.

The Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest capital on July 1, 2021.

Fireworks event, described as the largest performance in Europe, planned on the evening of August 20 to celebrate Stephen's Day in Hungary.

7 hours before the event began, the Hungarian government decided to postpone a week for receiving extremist weather warnings.

NMS on August 21 announced that apologizing, the most easily changed in meteorological industry and the least likely scenario happened.

The previous opposition called on the Hungarian government to destroy fireworks, criticizing this as a waste of money in vain in the context of the country's economic difficulty.

In 2006, the event of fireworks was affected by a violent storm that killed 5 people and several hundred people injured, causing panic on a large scale with more than one million people gathered to enjoy the show.

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