Either you’re ill-informed about Hungarian politics, or you’re posting in bad faith.
Orban, his predecessor, setup this system of winner takes all and then gerrymandered the voting to give him the 2/3rds voting power to basically do as he wished. Which he did with massive levels of crony capitalism, corruption and siphoning money out of the EU purportedly for development of of the country but which went into his and his mates pockets (to the point that the EU ended up cutting the funds off).
The majority of the Hungarian people despaired at the corruption but over turning it was difficult. Magyar managed to build a coalition whose job is specifically to remove the corruption, including removing the constructs that allowed Orban to put this in place which they are using to remove it.
This bill is part of a wider set of initiatives which includes a new constitution to make it considerably harder for this to happen again.
Even if they weren’t elected on a clean up corruption platform, this initiative is something most countries would allow when more than 2/3rds of the elected representatives are aligned on something. In the US a similar super-majority (senate plus HoR) can over-rule the president and force laws that he refuses to sign, and to remove (impeach) the president.
Your concern is ill-founded. This is a clean up of a deeply corrupt state, it’s not just a difference of political opinion, and the majority of Hungary is solidly behind it.
This pretty much sums it up. Every single thing they did ao far was based on their program/promises during the pre-election campaign. The majority of people voted for this (hell they expect it) and it does not come as suprise to anyone who is following the Hungarian politics.
Either you’re ill-informed about Hungarian politics, or you’re posting in bad faith.
Orban, his predecessor, setup this system of winner takes all and then gerrymandered the voting to give him the 2/3rds voting power to basically do as he wished. Which he did with massive levels of crony capitalism, corruption and siphoning money out of the EU purportedly for development of of the country but which went into his and his mates pockets (to the point that the EU ended up cutting the funds off).
The majority of the Hungarian people despaired at the corruption but over turning it was difficult. Magyar managed to build a coalition whose job is specifically to remove the corruption, including removing the constructs that allowed Orban to put this in place which they are using to remove it.
This bill is part of a wider set of initiatives which includes a new constitution to make it considerably harder for this to happen again.
Even if they weren’t elected on a clean up corruption platform, this initiative is something most countries would allow when more than 2/3rds of the elected representatives are aligned on something. In the US a similar super-majority (senate plus HoR) can over-rule the president and force laws that he refuses to sign, and to remove (impeach) the president.
Your concern is ill-founded. This is a clean up of a deeply corrupt state, it’s not just a difference of political opinion, and the majority of Hungary is solidly behind it.
This pretty much sums it up. Every single thing they did ao far was based on their program/promises during the pre-election campaign. The majority of people voted for this (hell they expect it) and it does not come as suprise to anyone who is following the Hungarian politics.