1/7 🇭🇺 parliament adopted another authorisation law due to the worsening pandemic situation, allowing government to temporarily suspend or differ from existing laws for 90 days. All fine until here.
2/7 Mere hours later @JuditVarga_EU proposes an amendment to the Constitution (!), which a) defines public funds as revenue, expenditure and claims of the state and b) says that the parliament must create a law by 2/3 majority (so this can only be amended by 2/3 majority) that...
3/7 regulates the establishment, operation and termination of trust foundations that are carrying out public functions, as well as regulating the performance of their public functions.
4/7 The important thing here is that 💵 the gov gives to these foundations ceases to be public 💵. Once they are with the foundations they become private money.
The justification says this is to ensure the independence of the foundations from the government.
The justification says this is to ensure the independence of the foundations from the government.
5/7 However, this could also mean that the gov is legalising pumping public funds to cronies through these foundations, turning it into private funds. Plus, this also means that all this could be only undone after a potential change of government only by a 2/3 majority in parl.
6/7 But Fidesz, going back to an age old trick of theirs that always seems to work - diverting attention from blatant corruption and state capture - also included a line that defines the family as "a female mother and a male father", so that media headlines highlight this...
7/7 and they can create a public debate over identity politics, instead of creating a debate about Fidesz privatising public funds to their friends, loyalists and cronies. And for some reason this cheap trick works, every single time.
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Update: for good measure, and surely an urgent question to solve in the middle of a pandemic when hospitals are nearing full capacity, the government also proposed to change the electoral law, two years ahead of the election, making it harder for the opposition to work together
In parliamentary elections in 🇭🇺, you have two votes. One for a national list, like 🇩🇪 or 🇳🇱 and one for your local constituency candidate, like 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇷. In order for a party or party coalition to stand a national list, they need 27/106 candidates in local constituencies...
distributed in 9 counties + Budapest (out of 19 + Budapest). The new proposal would increase this number to 50/106. This is important because major opposition parties agreed to run 1 common candidate against the government in all 106 constituencies in 2022...
but there is not yet an agreement on how many lists they will stand due to ideological differences. This decision will now be made harder.
@daniel_freund @GDelbosCorfield
@daniel_freund @GDelbosCorfield
The icing on the cake? You cannot protest this, because of the lockdown measures: gatherings are banned, curfew between 8 PM and 5 AM, events are banned. Only yesterday, 101 people died because of COVID-19. #BraveNewWorld
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