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At 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday night, the Orbán government presented an amendment to the electoral law, the essence of which is
A party list can be established by a party that has nominated independent candidates in at least nine counties and at least fifty individual electoral districts in the capital.
Under the law currently in force, the lowest threshold is 27 individual electoral districts.
The amendment was tabled by Zsolt Semjén, the rapporteur is Judit Varga, Minister of Justice. Officially, they justify themselves by preventing the start-up of “dwarf parties” without social support, as they – understand: The State Audit Office has already established that the minimum of HUF 150 million after listing is not they run in elections only to get state support.
However, the opposition suspects that the goal could be to avoid a coalition in 2022 against Fidesz-KDNP. The opposition would run joint candidates against the ruling parties in the 106 individual constituencies in parliamentary elections scheduled for two years, but they are not united in drawing up a joint list or two. The latter is practically impossible if almost half of the electoral districts require nomination.
Christian education is also yet to come.
With extraordinary authority in its pocket, the Orbán government has already tabled other amendments to the law, including Amendment 9 to the Basic Law, which states that “the mother is a woman, the father is a man” and that states that only married couples can adopt a child. The cabinet is now doing the same as it did in the spring, when, after voting the extraordinary mandate, it presented bills to Parliament to regulate important issues, so to speak, under the guise of night.
These changes, of course, are not covered by the extraordinary mandate, as they only concern regulatory governance due to the epidemic, but it is precisely because of the crisis that these minor changes can slide more easily.
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