Parliament debates the law on whistleblowers and amendments to the electoral law

Lawmakers will on Monday vote again on a law regulating complaints and the reporting of abuses after President Katalin Novák sent it back to parliament last month for reconsideration.

The law is aimed at regulating the constitutional right to petition, as well as providing a legal framework for the reporting of abuses and the protection of whistleblowers in line with the European Union requirement of legal harmonisation.

Novák returned the law to parliament, saying that a section of the legislation which was meant to provide stronger protections to Hungary’s constitutional rights and values instead weakened those values because it was not based on the assumption that there is a national agreement on them.

Later this week, lawmakers are scheduled to discuss planned amendments to local aspects of the country’s election law. Among other changes, the amendment would see a compensation list awarded in respect of settlements with more than 10,000 people voting in local government elections to parties that nominate candidates in at least two-thirds of individual constituencies.

As we wrote 10 days ago, the state of emergency is once again extended by half a year in Hungary, details HERE.

Source: MTI