In January the government classified the text of any amendment to the Fundamental Law or the State Defence Law, which is against the principles of the rule of law and a complete nonsense. Amendments of the Fundamental Law are not the internal affairs of the government or the parliamentary parties. It is the very document that should be modified only after the most extensive public and expert deliberation.
The government undermines democratic principles and expert discussion by classifying the planned amendment.
Therefore, Eötvös Károly Policy Institute calls upon the opposition parties not to participate in the parlamentary discussion and voting of this amendment before public and expert deliberation take place. Publishing the text of the amendment, information on the genuine terror threat in Hungary and the planned legal steps are the foremost preconditions of this deliberation.
László Majtényi: There is stink
László Majtényi’s essay in Élet és Irodalom on 2 Februar 2018.
