Orbán cabinet changed the election law during the state of emergency?

Yesterday evening Semjén Zsolt, Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary issued a proposal to modify the electoral law. As a consequence, it will be harder for political parties to set up an independent national list of deputies. 

This new, 38-page long proposal would modify several laws concerning the elections. The most significant is the changing of the election process, making it more complicated to set up a national list of independent deputies – reports portfolio.hu.

The modification of the law of the year 2001.CCIII concerning the election of parliamentary deputies says

“A party list can be set up by a party that is able  – at least in 9 counties and in the capital – to give one independent representative at least in 50 individual electoral districts.”

If a party hasn’t managed to give a candidate in at least 50 districts, it can’t set up a national list, or if it does provide 50 candidates, but some of them resign, and thus the total number drops under 50, its national list will be deleted.

Another law will be modified as well, the law on transparency of campaign costs of parliamentary deputies of the year 2013 LXXXVII. Its 3^rd paragraph will be changed by the following.

“In the general election of the parliamentary deputies each party that sets up a list of party deputies will get the following amount as financial support from the central budget: