The rules for claiming the national list are significantly changed. Although the government refers to camouflage parties, they also make mathematics difficult for the opposition.

The government is moving closer to electoral law, with a bill presented to Parliament on Tuesday night to nominate a party in 50 individual constituencies instead of the previous at least 27 in order to make a national list in parliamentary elections. It has not changed that at least 9 counties and the capital must present these at least 50 candidates.

In the explanatory memorandum for the proposal, the government argues that the law should be amended to curb abuses of its institutional campaign finance system, in part in light of the indications of parliamentary parties.

By prescribing 50 candidates, the government says it will ensure that only “parties with real social support” can put up the list nationwide, so they will take action against those who run in elections just to get hundreds of millions state support.

The camouflage parties are called “dwarf parties” by the government, and the State Audit Office has found that some nominating organizations do not spend state support after inclusion in the campaign alone.

If the number of individual candidates falls below 50, the list must be removed.

Although the government refers to camouflage parties, the amendment could also limit the opposition’s inclusion plans. The opposition would present a joint candidate against Fidesz in the 106 individual constituencies in the 2022 parliamentary elections, but they did not come together to draw up a joint list or two. This was an open question under current rules, but the fact that nearly half of electoral districts require nominations makes it difficult to start on both lists.

Minister Gergely Gulyás pointed out in previous government information that the law could be modified for camouflage parties, but at that time he had not revealed any details.

With extraordinary authority in its pocket, the government also presented Amendment 9 to the Basic Law, which establishes, among other things, that “the mother is the woman, the father is the man”, specifying the foundations with the phrase “establishing a public trust, the operation, termination and performance of its public function is regulated by a cardinal law “, and it can make the knowledge of public spending more opaque than at present by” public money is the income, expenditure and demand of the State “.

Although the extension to mother and father seems to be a mere ideological question in the amendment to the Basic Law itself, this Society for Freedoms, according to its lawyer, is not at all. The government also introduced a salad law Tuesday night stating that only married couples can adopt and singles need a ministerial permit. It is not entirely clear on what basis the Minister of Family Affairs (currently Katalin Novák) can grant permission in cases of “special recognition”, so according to Márton Asbóth, decisions like stomachs are expected.

We have read more about the adoption rules in this article:

By the way, the government is doing the same thing as in the spring, when, after voting on the extraordinary mandate, it presented bills to Parliament on very important issues. This in itself has nothing to do with the fact that the government has been given extraordinary powers – it is all about regulatory governance – but the focus is now quite different on the epidemic, so these changes may pass for less’ noise from battle “than normal.


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