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I Support Hungarian Hardline Nationalist Premier Viktor Orban

March 31, 2020 By Richard C. Young

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, EPP Summit, Salzburg, 19 September 2018

Originally posted on March 31, 2020.

New powers given to the Hungarian Premier by the nation’s parliament are supported by 72% of Hungarians, and by me. Orban’s new powers allow him to combat coronavirus in the country, and to protect his people. AFP reports:

Hungary’s parliament endorsed a bill on Monday giving nationalist premier Viktor Orban sweeping new powers he says he needs to fight the new coronavirus pandemic.

Critics at home and abroad have condemned the “anti-coronavirus defence law”, saying it gives Orban unnecessary and unlimited power in a ruse to cement his leadership rather than battle the virus.

After declaring a state of emergency on March 11, the new bill will give Orban the power to largely rule by decree indefinitely until the government decides the pandemic crisis is over.

The bill removes the current requirement for MPs to approve any extension to time limits on the decrees.

It also introduces jail terms of up to five years for anyone spreading “falsehoods” about the virus or the measures against it, stoking new worries for press freedom.

It was passed by 137 votes to 53 by parliament’s lower chamber, where Orban’s Fidesz party has a two-thirds majority.

Since taking power in 2010, the self-styled “illiberal” nationalist has transformed Hungary’s political, judicial and constitutional landscape.

The 56-year-old has frequently clashed with European institutions, NGOs and rights groups with Brussels suing Hungary for “breaching” EU values — charges fiercely denied by Budapest.

Orban has given criticism of the coronavirus law short shrift, accusing critics of alarmism and appealing to “European nit-pickers” to let Hungary defend itself against COVID-19.

– ‘Imaginary demons’ –

“If they can’t help, then at least don’t stop the Hungarians from defending (against the virus),” he said Friday.

His justice minister, Judit Varga, told foreign reporters Friday that parliament could revoke the decrees at any time, and that the opposition were “fighting imaginary demons and not dealing with reality”.

She also said decrees could be sent to the constitutional court for review.

A government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs insisted on Twitter Monday that the bill is time limited by the parliament’s powers of revoke, and by the pandemic itself which “hopefully ends one day”.

He added that “72 per cent of Hungarians support this measure”, referring to a recent poll about the provision on spreading falsehoods.

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Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
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