Discussion on Constitutional Amendment in Hungary

Yesterday Peter Magyar posted on X and a bunch of other forums about the latest amendment to

the constitution. This amendment the 17th is going to be put before parliament I think today

on Monday. Now he listed 12 points I'm just going to go through them quickly. First is going to be

a 12-year parliamentary limit for MPs. This basically eliminates everyone from the last

Fidesz government because they've been there most of them at least for about 16 years.

This is you could call it Lex Fidesz because it basically affects them.

He also said that point two is going to be the termination of the current president of the

no news no pushback from

all those people in Europe who always complained about

Orban and rule of law because

he's the president, he was put in there to do stuff

and now he's just simply being removed because of politics

because of ideology. They are literally changing the rules to get rid of him

but again there is no feedback from the EU or from the West

or anyone because the West and the EU never actually cared about rule of law

they just didn't like Orban and they didn't like Fidesz

Point three, more independent constitutional court at a 70-year age limit

the cynic in me says that this is just a way to

stack the constitutional court so that it favours Tissa. I don't see any reason for that

I have no problem with the 70-year age limit but I don't see why it's 70

I believe whether you're in parliament

or whether you're in the Constitutional Court. If the limit for a normal person for retirement

is 62-65, then this should also apply to people in politics. Why are they in any way special?

Point four is stronger judicial self-governance. This is about judges themselves being able to

initiate the recall of the curia. This is the Supreme Court. Again, I think this is a way

to stack the Supreme Court with people who they favor. Point five, the creation of a National

Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office. I like this wholeheartedly. If this is done well,

this is a very, very good thing. It's very important for Hungary to be very careful with

their funds and to ensure that national funds don't get tea-leaved or thieved.

by people because they are close to the money tap.

Point six, fewer cardinal laws. These are laws which need two-thirds of a majority

to change. They are going to get slashed in number and in scope and this will

make it easier for future parliaments to update rules on things like the central

bank, pensions, the state audit office and so on without being locked into having a

supermajority. Of course it's a little bit ironic, TISA doesn't actually need a

supermajority. Number seven is to restore the constitutional court's powers. Again I

see this just purely as a political move. Number eight, abolish the budget

council's right to a veto. The fiscal council loses its power to block budgets

and this streamlines or makes it easier for TISA to push through things without

any oversight whatsoever.

0.9 stronger protection of public funds nothing wrong with that. 0.10 this is

one I have a real issue with because it's pointless and it it's it harks back

to communism. This is renaming how the Hungarian counties are called. Now

Hungarian counties for ages hundreds of years were called Vármegyik. You can

think of that as castle counties. I'm not quite sure what it would translate to

in English. And they this was changed to Megyik by Hungary's worst communist

leader a guy called Mátyás Rákosi. He looks basically like Shrek but without

being nice without being tall without being green. He's got a pointy bald head

he was a horrible person everything about him was scummy you know his

political hero was Stalin and he ended up

he ended up being being sent to the Soviet Union where he died and screw that guy but the fact that

they want to change things back and they say it's a this is a symbolic reversal of nationalist

rebranding no it's a return to communist branding now there's no reason to do this whatsoever

none nothing is changed because this is just to remove what Fidesz did and you can say what you

want about Fidesz but Fidesz restored national pride to Hungarians and that's a thing that we

all should have rule 11 or number 11 was to review the constitutional rules for independent

regulatory bodies to scrub and update the special constitutional status and privileges

given to various autonomous agencies and regulators

i don't really know what that means to tell you the truth

Like with anything at the moment that TISA does, my feeling is they're doing it because they want

pure, unadulterated, complete power over everything. And 12, don't really care about

this one, to abolish the independent parliamentary guard and unified law enforcement. This is to

scrap the separate parliamentary security force and bring law enforcement under one coherent

administration. I don't have a problem with that whatsoever. Now these are things you've heard

me speak about many times before. They finally put things together in an amendment. This amendment

will be tabled before parliament today and it'll be voted on, I'm sure, at some point this week.

And of course it will pass because TISA has a super majority. In my opinion it's just a way

for TISA to absolutely grab every single reign of power that they can.

especially when it comes to judges that is concerning when it comes to the renaming of

the counties that is an awful thing whoever put that forward i don't know is his dad was he brought

up in the communist party i'm guessing he was i don't see a reason for that because you name you

try and name one thing that rako she did that was good and you won't find one

um i have i have a big uh a big problem with rako she because he caused my family a great

deal of harm um a great deal of harm and that's not just me it's many many people

he was an appalling filthy individual screw that guy the fact that tisa is effectively doing what

he did for no other reason that they don't they want to have a different name is absolutely

ridiculous um yeah so that's what's happening today at least in parliament