Bruce Springsteen has pointed out, “ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.” It was to thwart this route to royal satisfaction that 18th-century thinkers such as Montesquieu and James Madison came to prize the separation of powers. If the setting of policy, the writing of laws and the administration of justice were the preserve of different people, absolute power could not end up in one set of hands.
Fidesz’s image abroad is dominated by such demonstrations of nationalist ideology. But the legal and institutional creativity unleashed at home are a more important part of the story. In 2018 a new code of procedure gave courts powers to reject civil filings more easily. Peter Szepeshazi, a former judge, says they can stumble over trivial errors such as a wrong phone number: “If it’s unfriendly to the political or economic elite, they have an excuse to send it back.” A report in April by the European Association of Judges said Ms Hando was riding roughshod over judicial independence.
The country’s domestically owned television and radio stations are nearly all pro-government. Last November the owners of 476 media outlets, including some of the biggest in the country, donated them free of charge to a new non-profit foundation known as, whose goals include promoting “Christian and national values”.
Despite its institutional advantages, Fidesz would not be able to stay in power if it were not so popular. It secures that support though its nationalist appeal and its passable economic record.
Please people don’t believe this! Read the bloody new law first and you’ll see nothing is against democracy, especially when Orbán has 2/3 majority in Parliament 3 times in a row, last 10 years and he has never been so popular. The possiblity becoming a dictator is almost 0.
If the leftist press, which supports dictatorships such as Cuba and Venezuela, is against a conservative president, then it will blacken his image. A imprensa esquerdista, apoiadora de ditadores cubanos e venezuelanos, denigre a imagem de presidentes conservadores!
Narrative of defeated leftists, narrativa de esquerdistas derrotados!
fake news. Cold war is over more than 30 y.a. but propaganda sluts stay. paradox. just one side changed.
Hmm.. and who's captured , BBCNews, CNN and so on?
Did you said in Brazil too?
If Hungarians keep voting for him they must like the bitch.
Orban is a Soviet Dictator at heart.
One party political system is socialism!?!
One man, one country,one vote. Trumps Dream brought to you by the Gop Team
The idea that all cultures default to democracy is an Anglosphere delusion.
We know the feeling.
Same in Albania with our prime minister EdiRama 😉 why you haven't made an article for him 🤔
The worst countries on the planet are States with more than one party.