HUNGARY CORONA VIRUS COUP !
HUNGARY CORONA COUP !
Hungary – alongside with Poland – has long been the black sheep of the EU when it comes to the respect of the rule of law and liberal-democratic foundations. The shaky grounds have been further eroded, as a result of a bill the Parliament passed on the 30th March the Hungarian parliament voted to give PM Victor Orban. The power to rule by decree with no clear end-date. This new development in books of democratic country,situation like this is never ever seen before. While most of the country are fighting for survival of there people form Pandemic, on side line this historical event has taken place.
The bill is meant to outline the measures that aim to slow the spread of corona virus. In reality, the legislation goes much further than that, potentially giving unlimited powers to the prime minister for the foreseeable future.
As on now live track of Covid-19 cases are mentioned as following.
| Hungary | 585 | +60 | 21 | +1 | 42 | 522 | 17 | 61 | 2 |
To understand this new better it is essential to know Mr. Victor in detail.
Viktor Mihály Orbán born 31 May 1963,he is a Hungarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. He was also Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002. He has also been President of Fidesz, a national conservative political party, since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003.
Born in Székesfehérvár, Orbán studied law at Eötvös Loránd University, graduating in 1987. He briefly studied political science at Pembroke College, Oxford, before returning to Hungary to enter politics in the wake of the Autumn of Nations. He became head of the reformist student movement the Alliance of Young Democrats (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége), which would eventually become the Fidesz party. Orbán became a nationally known politician after giving an address at the 1989 reburial of Imre Nagy and other martyrs of the 1956 revolution, in which he openly demanded that Soviet troops withdraw from the country.
After the transition to democracy in 1990, he was elected to the National Assembly and served as the leader of Fidesz's parliamentary caucus until 1993. Under his leadership, Fidesz shifted away from its original centre-right, classical liberal, pro-European integration platform toward more right-wing national conservatism. After Fidesz won a plurality of seats in the 1998 election, Orbán was appointed Prime Minister for the first time.
Fidesz narrowly lost the 2002 and 2006 elections to the Socialist Party, with Orbán spending this period as Leader of the Opposition. The fall in popularity of the Socialists, exacerbated by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's "Őszöd speech", helped Orbán lead Fidesz to a landslide victory in 2010. Orbán formed a coalition with the Christian Democrats, giving him a super majority in the National Assembly, which he used to introduce major constitutional and legislative reforms. Fidesz retained its super majority in the 2014 and 2018 elections. In August 2018, Orbán became the second longest-serving Prime Minister after Kálmán Tisza.
Orban has stamped out dissent and seized control of every major aspect of a country’s political and social life, without needing to resort to “hard” measures like banning elections and building up a police state.
A Backsliding Democracy
1. In 2010 , Orban’s party won a “constitutional majority”, winning 263 seats, just over the two-thirds margin necessary to rewrite the constitution by parliamentary vote.
2. They did that in 2012.
3. Multiple major amendments even after that.
4. Gerrymandering
5. Filling the courts with loyalist judges
Complete take-over of the nation
1.The state broadcaster was brought under the control of a new media board.
2.Private media corporations were forced to sell to the state or to oligarchs aligned with Fidesz.
3. Forcible State takeover of Businesses
4. Hard anti immigration stance.
5. A state of emergency related to the migration crisis, brought in in 2016, is still in force.
The Latest Bill
1.The newly passed bill suspends the Hungarian Parliament indefinitely
2. Governance would be replaced with a direct ‘rule by decree’ by the Prime Minister
3. Parliament voted by 137 to 53 to pass the measures, with the two-thirds majority enjoyed by Orbán’s Fidesz party enough to push them through in spite of opposition from other parties, which had demanded a time limit or sunset clause on the legislation.
4. The bill introduces jail terms of up to five years for intentionally spreading misinformation that hinders the government response to the pandemic, leading to fears that it could be used to censor criticism of the government response.
5.It also caused disquiet among independent journalists, who have often been accused by the government and its loyal stable of media outlets of peddling fake news.
6. Anyone who disrespects the quarantine orders can be punished with a 5 year-long prison sentence – 8 years if the actions can be linked to someone’s death.
7.The bill also extended the state of emergency declared earlier this month over coronavirus.
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