The Orbán cabinet to drastically change electoral laws again?
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In the next parliamentary elections, at least 71 independent deputies in 14 separate counties will be needed for a party to set up a national list of deputies. All this was proposed in the Committee on Justice by independent MP János Volner and supported by the Fidesz-KDNP coalition.
Today independent deputy János Volner has proposed a new modification of election laws that is supported by the governing coalition. The proposition would further limit the possibilities of setting up a national list – writes telex.hu who was informed by László Sebián-Petrovszki, a parliamentary deputy of the party DK and member of the Committee on Justice. He said that the deputies of the coalition unilaterally voted to accept the proposition, meaning that 8 of them voted yes and the four opposition deputies present at the session voted no.
The proposition of János Volner would limit future elections as only those parties would be able to set up a national party list who had managed to give an independent deputy in at least 14 counties plus the capital and in 71 independent electoral districts.
All this basically means that in case the 2/3 of the parliament votes for accepting this package that modifies the electoral laws, opposition parties will have neither the chance nor the possibility to set up their own separate party list during the next elections in 2022. Moreover, several small but existing parties will be unable to set up a list without naming at least one candidate in districts where oppositional candidates have a higher chance to win.
This news is extremely interesting since Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the PMs Office denied two weeks ago that the government tries to limit the chances of opposition parties to set up their own lists own their options to cooperate. In reality, however, the modification proposed two weeks ago, apart from some technical improvements, would indeed change a crucial point of the process, thus making it more challenging to set up a national list.
If that happens, I think all opposition parties should just boycott next elections. Let Fidesz and its “allies” run alone and show the rest of the world that Hungary no longer is a democratic country.
Time to pack your bags and leave the Bolshevik country behind
The next step is to only have one party on the ballot paper.
Anonymous, I see it more likely that there will be two parties: Fidesz and Christian Party, the latter acting as fake opposition. Just like in North Korea, where one party gets 97 % and another 3 % and they can say that officially there are democratic elections held regularly.