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The 11. march ordered the Hungary state of emergency in the country, as part of the safeguards to prevent the spreding of koronaviruset.
Now the national assembly of Hungary adopted with 137 against the 53 votes that the prime minister should have greater powers to combat koronaviruset. It means that the government can suspend certain laws, to deviate from the statutory provisions and introduce other extraordinary measures.
the Streets of Budapest disinfected in hoping to stop the contagion of koronaviruset. Pr. 30. march 15 confirmed dead and 447 infected in Hungary.
Photo: Zoltan Mihadak More power
While the Norwegian fullmaktsloven only applies for a month at a time, the new Hungarian law no end date.
It provides the Hungarian prime minister the authority to extend the state of emergency to the government even thinks it’s over.
Critics have condemned the new law and believes it provides the prime minister and his right-wing government unnecessary and unlimited power. 100,000 people have signed a petition against the law.
Peter Jakab who is the leader of the opposition Jobbik in Hungary, believes prime minister Viktor Orbán try on the attempted coup in the country.
Photo: Zoltan Mathe / AP
The new law also means that anyone who the government believes are spreading the fake news about the virus or measures against it, risking a prison sentence of up to five years. It has led to concerns for press freedom in the country.
Orbáns regjeringsparti Fidesz have along with the significantly less regjeringspartneren KDNP two-thirds majority in parliament: It means that they can get through laws without having to bother about the opposition.
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the Leader of the largest opposition party, Peter Jakab, believes the law places the whole of the Hungarian democracy is in quarantine. And that legislative amendment may the memory of the coup attempt.
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Orbán himself promises that he will use the extraordinary power has been rational.
But ever since Orbán came to power for the second time in 2010 Hungary’s political, legal and constitutional landscape changed.
the European union’s first dictatorship
56-year-old Orbán has been in a number of conflicts with the european institutions and rettighetsgrupper, among other things, about immigration and about the rule of law. The EUROPEAN union has even gone to the case against the government for breaking with the union’s values.
up Until recently, Orbáns system been considered as a hybridstat – neither democracy or dictatorship, wrote the former journalist Paul Lendvai recently before the law had been adopted. He asked then whether Hungary can be turned into the European union’s first dictatorship.
Human Rights Watch also wrote before the law was adopted that it can be perceived as an attempt I to steal control power.
While many countries are introducing extraordinary measures, justifies not the Hungarian proposal each intervention as necessary to manage the crisis, believes menneskerettighetsorganisasjonen.
When the Council of europe criticized the bill, they got the response that they had read the act itself entirely accurate.
prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that the opposition misunderstands the situation around the new law, and that parliament can say stop at any time.
Photo: Bernadett Szabo the Support of the people
Orbáns followers believe that the expansion of unntaksbestemmelsene has the broad support of the people. They blame the opposition for the scare tactics and say that the crisis requires clear leadership.
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Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs responded that a new survey of the law received the support of 72 percent of the population. Kovacs then wrote on Twitter that the opposition did not support the fight against the virus.
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