Report: Hungarian democracy in shambles
Hungarian democracy is in shambles according to a new report made by the international IDEA organisation. The report they give out every year summarises the democratic standing of 173 countries of the world.
The global assessment of the democracies of the world summarises each years’ standing and developments. The report uses seventeen different metrics to help rank the democracies, writes Telex. The metrics include aspects such as the credibility of elections and equal access to legal institutions.
Democracy is in a worldwide recession
Until last year, the organisation published a master-list of democracies with all of the information. This year, they changed the structure and instead of one huge list, they published four smaller ones with different key aspects. These four smaller categories are representation, rights, rule of law and participation.
Rule of law and press freedom turned out to be the most common categories that declined.
Surprisingly enough, the Central European region showed an unexpected improvement in the rule of law department. This is interesting, because two of the most prominent states of this region – Hungary and Poland – notoriously get critiqued for rule of law concerns. Read more about democratic dilemmas HERE.
Hungary sliding down
Despite the improving Central European tendencies, Hungary is literally the last one on the list among the Member States. Hungary is the 64th on the rule of law list, six places lower than last year. The only category where Hungary isn’t the last one among Member States is the rights aspect. The Hungarian legal system is slowly deteriorating and not showing signs of getting any better, so we shouldn’t be very optimistic about this either. When compared to 2017, in 2022, Hungary dropped 18 places. Read more about Hungarian stance on democracy HERE.
On the bright side
However, the organisation observed improvement in 8 countries. For example, Romania stepped up a place making it only the third worst country in the European Union. Bulgaria moved up seven places, making it the 48th on the list.
None of them can touch Denmark, which is on the top in everything, except representation. Here, although there’s an improving tendency, the Swedes beat them to the first place.
Democracy in Hungary? Are you serious?
By decisions, the position adapted by the European Union, there stated recorded opinion of Democracy in Hungary, under Victor Orban – that Hungary no longer is Governed as a Democracy, but aligned to that of a Dictatorship, subject title of this article is FACT.
Did the above commentators miss the last election and the results. The Hungarian people rejected socialism. All majority government can be considered dictatorships. Canada of had majority government, the UK has a majority of Conservatives in government. It is obvious that the agenda of the majority is passed. It is time for EU government to get real and accept the will of the people of sovereign countries. It is easy to pick on Hungary because it is a small country. Government should focus on their own people, e.g., why are Germans moving to Hungary in large numbers, because they do not feel safe in their country, why are Dutch trying to buy up all the Hungarian lands, because they are unhappy at home, why are Germans buying up Hungarian produce, because they know it is tasty and safe to eat, not poisoned by dangerous fertilizers. So, my only advice to EU countries, clean up your own territory before condemning another country’s government and the choice of their citizens.
Most of what see and hear in the media are lies and deceptions – the EU is funding fact checking by left wing NGOs