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Following Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s announcement on Monday, Parliament held an extraordinary session on Tuesday and deputies
With 180 yes, it was accepted against a gender
the emergency bill. Not all members of the National Assembly attended the meeting.
With the law now passed, the government has been granted extraordinary authority to control the country by decree due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The curfew and the ban on meetings will come from Tuesday at midnight if parliament votes on the mandate.
Under the law, the strict restrictive measures listed by the prime minister on Monday will go into effect from midnight on Tuesday. These include:
- All meetings and events are prohibited.
- Restaurants are closed, except factory ones, only home delivery is possible.
- Shops and hairdressing salons and other small boat services must close at 7 pm
- Hotels cannot accept tourists, only business travelers.
- Up to ten people can participate in family reunions and private events.
- Weddings can only be celebrated without a wedding. Only parents, siblings, and witnesses of church and civic ceremonies, as well as family members, can attend.
- Funerals can be held for up to 50 people.
- Sporting events can only be held behind closed doors. Individual sports are allowed outdoors, however amateur team sports are prohibited.
- Leisure facilities, fitness rooms, indoor pools, theaters, museums and zoos must be closed.
- Higher education can only work online, and colleges of higher education will close as well. In high schools, they are transitioning to digital education starting in the eighth grade. Nurseries, kindergartens and elementary schools will remain open for those under 14 years of age.
- Hospital and daycare staff and educators now undergo weekly testing for a targeted rapid coronavirus test.
The exact rules are expected to be published soon in the Hungarian Gazette. These are detailed in a separate article.
The Orbán government’s proposal Judit Varga presented in Parliament. The Justice Minister said that, unlike in the spring, this time the extraordinary legal order is scheduled to be introduced for 90 days.
That is why it is planned for this moment, because, according to information from the European Union, a vaccine against the coronavirus will be available in the meantime. If possible, of course, the restrictions will be lifted first.
Maté Kocsis, the leader of the Fidesz faction said in his parliamentary speech that the situation is much worse in the west of us than in Hungary. In Austria, for example, the number of infected people is double. In Belgium, intensive care units were already full in October. Finally, he asked Lajos Kórózs to remove him for spreading false news.
István Simicskó, the leader of the KDNP faction referred to a pandemic that had not been seen for a hundred years, then added that the introduction of the special legal order in March was the right decision and the defense was successful.
Lajos Korózs, MSZP MP spoke about the usefulness of the time limit for the emergency, and then about the fact that the government wasted the summer and forgot to take many measures.
Cover image: MTI Photographer: Balogh Zoltán
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