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  • In a legislative blitz, the Hungarian government has moved to change election rules, a step seen as hampering opposition party efforts to join forces ahead of the next election in 2022. The proposal, sent to parliament just before midnight Tuesday and sponsored by Justice Minister Judit Varga, makes it harder for smaller parties to gain seats at an election via national party lists. Currently 93 of the 199 seats in the Hungarian assembly are granted on the basis of national party lists, with the remainder won in individual districts. If approved by parliament, in order to put up a national list the law would require parties to run candidates in fifty districts, up from today's 27 threshold. "A national list may be established by a party that has nominated independent candidates in at least...fifty individual constituencies," said the draft bill. Earlier this year opposition parties from left to right said they plan to unite and stand single candidates per district against those from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling right-wing party Fidesz at the 2022 election. But negotiations are ongoing over whether to run a single unified national party list or separate ones. The government argues that the change will prevent small "fake" parties springing up to try receive state subsidies for standing in elections. The move came amid a raft of legislative proposals submitted late Tuesday including a draft constitutional amendment that would tighten the definition of marriage effectively banning adoption by same-sex couples. It would also ensure that only married couples could adopt children, with exceptions for single people only with special ministerial permission. Another clause of the amendment would change the definition of public funds and grant parliament extended powers to decide on the transparency of monies held by private foundations, often run by government allies. Earlier Tuesday the parliament approved handing emergency powers of rule-by-decree to the government for 30 days to tackle the second wave of the coronavirus. During the first wave of the virus in springtime Orban's critics accused him of abusing the emergency powers to rush through laws unrelated to the virus. In May, a ban on legal gender change came into force, making it impossible for transgender people to have official documents contain their gender and name in accordance with gender identity. pmu/bp
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  • Hungary to tighten election law
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