The legislators of the Hungarians on Monday, April 14, supported the constitutional changes with support of the LGBTQ community of the country and the dual nationals, the last step to strengthen the “illiberal” democracy mark of the Viktor’s nationalist prime minister.
Since his return to power in 2010, the leader of Hungary has widely restricted the rights of the LGBTQ community, the media, the courts and the academy. In mid -March, he promised to undertake a “Easter cleaning” against that of his domestic opponents that he has called “Apest Bugs.”
The constitutional amendment, which proclaims that people can only be men or women, echoes the genre of the ally of Orban, the president of the United States, Donald Trump. It also allows the “temporary” dispossession of citizenship of some dual or multiple nationals, which could go to American Hungarian billionaires George Soros, a regular element of populist conspiracy theories.
Before the vote on the amendment, which approved the Parliament with 140 votes in favor of 21 against, some boxes of boxes temporarily blocked an entrance to Parliament before the police went. “When we chained ourselves the first review of the Constitution in 2011, we never thought that 14 years later, we would have to do the same,” said the opposition legislator Timea Szabo.
The opposition politicians of the liberal impulse deployed a banner that said “you can prohibit us, but not the truth” in Parliament, while the protesters outside the building sang “we will not allow us to transform ourselves into the Russia of Putin.”
Change raft
In addition to the disposition that people can only be men or women, another declares that the rights of children for their “clean physical, mental and moral development has priority over all their fundamental rights”, except the right to life. This provision is considered a way of strengthening the legal foundations for the prohibition of the progress of pride.
Another prominent disposition empowers the government to temporarily strip the Hungarian citizens of dual or multiple citizens, even if they acquired their nationalities by birth. The ruling party suggested that the measure is aimed at “speculators” financing “NGOs false, bought politicians and the so -called independent media” from abroad.
Related legislation that will be voted on a later date specifications that Hungarian citizens can be suspended for a maximum of 10 years and those affected can be expelled from the country. The nationals of other EU Member States would be exempt, along with some other countries in Europe, according to the proposal.
Last week, more than 30 prominent Hungarian legal experts punished the measure as “an unprecedented construction in international law” that could be contrary to binding conventions of human rights.
Like Putin
Critics say that the proposal of legal changes further erodes democratic rights in the European country of the center, approaching the EU Member State even closer to the Son of the authoritarianism seen by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Political, the measures are considered an effort to undermine more and more support for the ruling coalition, divide the opposition along the idological lines and cut the end to the right before the parliamentary elections of the next spring.
Since last year, Orban has faced an unprecedented challenge of the former government leader turned into the opposition leader Peter Magyar, with his Tisza party eroding the solid leadership of Fidesz de Fidesz, according to several opinion surveys.
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