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Half of Hungary updated the Magyar Közlöny website because Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced an unexpected adjustment in his evening video: a curfew was introduced, a store lock, a retirement shopping bar, but a lot of people I didn’t know how to start work in the morning. Meanwhile, the debate on the Hungarian-Polish veto on the EU’s rule of law mechanism has become increasingly militant. Donald Trump’s fate in the United States was decided in the elections, he began to speak of fraud, declared himself the winner, and ultimately his demands failed. There was a terrorist attack in Vienna. Here are the highlights of November 2020.
On Monday, November 9, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced a series of new restrictions due to the growing number of cases of the coronavirus epidemic, but made them conditional on a vote of the extraordinary legal order by parliament. The National Assembly extended the state of emergency declared the day after the coronavirus epidemic after voting in favor of the protection law against the second wave of the epidemic, so the government intervened quickly, including a curfew between the 8:00 pm and 5:00 am, digital education. above the eighth grade, the banning of meetings and events, the closure of restaurants and the closure of sporting events. Then it turned out that the wearing of masks would also be mandatory in all public areas of the country.
For the restrictions to be interpretable, many would have needed a government decree to figure out how they could go home, say, November 11 at 0 a.m., or how they could go to work the next day before 5 p.m. However, regulations didn’t want to be late on Tuesday nights, until finally so many people visited Magyar Közlöny’s website that by the time the details of the new regulations came out, the site had become inaccessible to many due to congestion. Finally, around midnight that night, the package of legislation that went into effect the next day ended. In the meantime, however, it is time for the government to present Amendment 9 to the Basic Law, drawn up in 2011 and effective as of 2012: this determines that the father is a man, the mother a woman, and that “money public is the income, the expenditure of the state and its claim “, that is, if it is transferred to a foundation, or tax revenue is waived as a corporate tax offer, it already loses that character.
In addition, by regulating the curfew, a proposal was presented to amend the Electoral Law, which introduced that a party that had independently nominated candidates in at least nine counties and in the capital could establish a party list. Previously, only 27 individual electoral districts had to present candidates for the party’s list. In essence, this is how the opposition was forced to list all parties if they wanted to replace the Fidesz-KDNP government. The amendment indicated by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, for his part, was justified on the grounds that it would make the work of the camouflage parties very difficult, which only begin with the support of the State, which is in line with reality.
In mid-December, the constitution and electoral law were finally rewritten with the support of a government parliamentary majority.
You could know beforehand, but the presidential election in the United States turned into chaos.
The United States traditionally holds presidential elections on the first Tuesday in November, where citizens do not vote directly for the candidates, but rather for the electorates of the 50 member states and Washington DC. This system is already capable of producing a different result than the will of the majority – Hillary Clinton, for example, received more votes overall in 2016 than Donald Trump – but its logic is that there are other problems in countries of continental size and areas not. densely populated. all your destiny. In 2020, the already straightforward US presidential election system was completely overthrown by the coronavirus epidemic. Many states that did not actually allow it in the past have allowed citizens to vote by mail or early due to the risk of a virus. It is precisely for this reason that experts, representatives of the federal government, have said that there will be no final result on November 4, but probably not even on November 6.
It was also known that in most places Democratic Party supporters would vote by letter or in advance, so it was not an unexpected turn of events: On Tuesday, November 3, the results came in a row from east to west. , mainly in the rusted states, showed the leadership of President Donald Trump. Experts have predicted that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, card votes will only start counting after the election is over, as has been the case in Arizona and Nevada. In addition, there was the prospect of increasingly closer results in each state. That night, for the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden made a restrained speech that all votes should be counted, but he believes in his victory, and then the Republican candidate, incumbent President Trump, appeared, who later declared victory several times. in the following days. His maximum support from Fox Newson was also said to have come early.
He then had to wait until Saturday, November 7, as everyone watched the votes being processed, Trump’s lead in the battlefield states dwindled, then he sided with Biden until it was finally announced that Biden had all kinds of defeats. But on the way, the Republican believers yelled fraud, ran to the counting rooms, but were not allowed to enter. Thus, there were demonstrations in the streets, for example in Pennsylvania, to “stop counting the votes”, while in Arizona, where Trump reached the ballot card, they chanted “count all the votes.”
Conspiracy theories have spread over thousands of dead votes, null votes for president. However, over time, members of the federal government, Republican senators and governors also called the fraud a hoax, although Trump’s lawyers filed lawsuits, but the courts lined them up all the way to the Supreme Court. Biden won, after counting several counts, the electorate of Georgia and Arizona won, while the Democratic senatorial candidates did not win here. Then the chaos continued with the incumbent president further debating the outcome, but the federal government has begun the transfer process so Joe Biden can be sworn in with Vice President Kamala Harris in mid-January.
On the other hand, Trump’s burning believers continue to insist that Biden won by fraud, which could put his stamp on his presidency.
Terrorism also did not disappear during the epidemic
On Monday, November 2, at eight o’clock in the evening, a protracted attack began in Vienna, near the synagogue on Seitenstettengasse Street, with shootings in six locations. The moment was also painful because Austria spent its last night free of curfews due to the epidemic, which means that many people went to restaurants and pubs for the last time.
The exact motives of the attackers are unknown, the authorities treat what happened as a terrorist attack.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer reported three civilian casualties at a press conference the following morning. Two of the victims were men and one woman. By then, they knew of nearly 20 injured. Shortly after, it was reported that one of the perpetrators, who was shot by police during the attack, was a believer in the Islamic State. An alleged perpetrator was later arrested and a seriously wounded person was killed in the shots that struck him.
Viktor Orbán and Mateusz Morawiecki joined forces
Hungary and Poland have pledged since late summer to veto all EU agreements linking the € 1.8 billion recovery fund and the EU budget for 2021-2027 to the rule of law mechanism. The plan was for the European Council to decide on the funding mechanism in mid-November, but Council President Charles Michel decided to give the issue a total of 15 minutes in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, could give their opinions. The then Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, also indicated that although he would not veto, he did not agree to the terms of democracy. Once this discussion was concluded, an hour and a half agreed on the distribution mechanism for the coronavirus vaccines.
However, the problem was not solved with this, even if Michel took the initiative for a few days on the threat of a veto. There was rhetoric among governments about why they were needed, so that even Hungarians and Poles could vote for the distribution of the money. The prime ministers of the two renouncing countries eventually agreed to insist that it could not have been the law. The debate finally closed in December.
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