Report claims steady erosion in Hungarian democracy
According to a Stockholm-based report that rates democracies around the world, Hungary is one of the worst ‘backsliding’ countries. In recent years, the country’s development has been worrisome in terms of its democracy.
The recent report of the International IDEA (International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) reports that, among a few other states, Hungary is one of the worse ‘backsliding’ countries in Europe. This year; however, the United States has been also mentioned for Trump’s actions to undermine people’s believes regarding the electoral system as well as for his Capitol Building riot earlier this year.
According to Telex, the organisation examined the Hungarian government’s actions between 2020 and 2021. According to the findings of the International IDEA,
more than one fourth of the overall population of the world is living in countries where democratic ‘backsliding’ can be observed.
This means a continuous quality decrease when it comes to democracy. Democratic ‘backsliding’ can be present in many different forms; it can be caused by government decrees that incite discrimination against sexual or racial minorities or the politicisation of religion, for instance. The latter is increasingly present in India, while, according to the report, the former is a serious threat to the Hungarian democracy due to the government’s recent ‘homophobic’ child protection law.
The report says: “In 2021, the Hungarian government has passed a law that banned homosexuality to be mentioned during the course of sexual education in schools and it caused outrage in the EU and among LGBTQIA+ rights activists.” However, similar tendencies can also be observed in Poland and Turkey.
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Telex says, that according to the International IDEA, the oppression in non-democratic countries became more explicit in recent period and several democratic countries have shown signs of ‘backsliding’.
The report also mentioned that “the pandemic has emboldened several governments to double down on popular expression and push for more direct control.
Hungary is a good example for this tendency, as the country’s government passed several ordinances that limited citizens’ rights and gave more power to Viktor Orbán’s government”.
International IDEA also added that this process has been going on for a long time in the case of the Hungarian democracy but – just as with many other countries – the onset of the pandemic made ‘backsliding’ more acute.
Although Hungary had a relatively good score on Clean Elections – despite its previous decline in 2015 – it had a poorer performance in Civil Liberties, the report says.
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Source: Telex.hu, Idea.int
15 Comments
Yep, spot on with this article. Illiberal democracy.
B.S. The USA has done much more backsliding since Biden is president than the 4 years under Trump. Check the prices of gas and items in grocery as well as rent and job market. I live here. I AM IN IT. It is horrendous in the USA with worse product shortages now than there were last year.
“According to a Stockholm-based report …”
What is this expanded LGBTQIA+ thing?
They should worry about their own country while they have a country -:)
“Sweden Spinning out of Control
From the beginning of 2019 to the end of July, there were 120 bombings in Sweden, according to police statistics.
In Uppsala alone, a picturesque Swedish university town, where 80% of girls do not feel safe in the city center, four rapes or attempted rapes took place in early August within four days.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14819/sweden-crime
I guess it depends upon ones opinion of democracy? Certainly to a globalist marxist their definition of democracy is you will do and think as we tell you to. The thing is Leftist see the world as their fiefdom and it is a one way street with them when they are in power. When they are not in power they scream erosion of democracy about the people in power. These leftist want a one world globalist marxist state where your every thought and action they can control and punish if it goes against their agenda. That is called tyranny. Certainly Hungary is not a perfect example of a free society but compared to the US and most of western Europe. Hungarians enjoy a society that tolerates disent and different viewpoints without fear of a visit in the night from the secret police for daring to criticize a government policy. a good majority of Hungarians do not want a return of the marxist and they will reaffirm that point of view in the 2022 national elections.
More bullship from a leftist group.
Trump did not incite the January 6 protest in DC. That is a total LIE.
There are many election irregularities from the 2020 election that need to be explored. Why resist an independent audit if the elections were valid?
The backsliding in democracy comes from leftwing groups that engage in cancel culture or leftwing companies like Twitter that censor conservative political speech while allowing terrrorists to say whatever they want.
The backsliding in democracy comes from “defund the police” and “bail reform” that led to the car masssacre of Christmas celebrants in Waukesha.
The backsliding in democracy is taking away the human right to choose their own healthcare.
The backsliding in democracy is forcing children to accept LGBTQ against their parents’ wishes or against their religions.
These are the same fools that insisted for 3years trump was working with Putin just for starters. Anyone who was paying attention questions the election fraud- hundreds have testified under oath what they witnessed- along with half the country. For 4 years Clinton said the 2016 election was fraud and trump knows it along with 14 dems who contested it.
The dems refuse any kind of investigation and have gone to great lengths to stop any investigation – that’s called a breakdown in democracy and the most critical. Imagine the DOJ, FBI, and NYT involved with early morning raids of 3 journalist and having their computers and phones taken. The NYT is in the middle of a defamation charges proceeding against the NYT by the journalist. Left wing media hardly mentions it. Sad to say the US goverment is very corrupt and accuse smaller countries of it. Next time just tell them to F off.
These far-left thugs parading as guardians of democracy would like Hungary to turn into a mob-ruled wasteland their countries are becoming. Our democracy is alive and well. The decadent West is cooked. They have no freedom, safety of democracy.
We will not let this happen in Hungary:
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Interesting that some people equate gas prices in the US (still pretty much the cheapest in the world) and food prices (determined by factors from around the world including weather), supply shortages (due to a shortage of HGV drivers and over demand on the Sea Containers caused by pent up demand worldwide post the worst of Covid) and a job market in which there are more jobs than applicants as being ‘backsliding’ on democracy. I must presume that the meaning of the word ‘democracy’ is missing from their dictionary.
Imagine the most powerful government in world and many people at the very top did everything in there power to destroy Trump before and after he was elected and it continued for years. FBI, DOJ, CIA and state dept. and others from the Obama administration with the majority still gov employees- this is all documented such as the very top 6 people of the most powerful law enforcement in the world – were either fired or forced to resign. No one has ever been charged with anything. 5 years later the investigation continues. Talk about democracy – maybe this person doesn’t realize trump or anyone have the right to contest anything, especially when half the voters agree- this organization is a joke and should be treated as such.
As a (former) swede I can honestly say, if it’s a ”study” from Sweden It’s most likely the opposite to the truth.
In Sweden it’s truly Orwellian, war is peace, love is hate etc.
I believe Sweden has the most institutionalised corruption in Europe.
@Mike Hall: name one country in Western Europe where people fear a knock on the door from the secret police. However, the bedfellows by choice of the Hungarian government, namely China and Russia are places where people do fear a knock on the door at night from the secret police.
The people in each country have the right to chose their government.
Once there was free speech in the EU. That is no longer possible. People are being taken to court for voicing the truth about the illegal Muslim and other Migrants.
In the US it has become a habit of the FBI to break down doors of Republican supporters, haul them to jail, without charges that can be substantiated.
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So Kati, you asked the name one country where police (secret or overt) knock down doors early in the morning. The answer is US.
Kati needs to widen her studies of geopolitics.
Kati, How about Angela Merkels Germany, Austria, France and also the UK, say something about Muslims or illegal immigrants or other politically incorrect topics such as organizing a protest and get reported and you can very easily be arrested and held. Wake up Kati everything is not as you were lead to believe by the media.
Mike Hall is right on.
Kati, you are stuck in the 80’s. We are in 2021. The secret police and censure is in the west.