Hungary nullifies independent judiciary, cementing Orban's authoritarian grip

Source: Think Progress

The new "reforms" would make it all-but-impossible to prosecute him or anyone in his party.

LUKE BARNES
DEC 13, 2018, 11:28 AM

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took another step closer to becoming Europe’s premier autocrat by passing a law that effectively nullifies the country’s independent judiciary.

Under the new legislation, which passed through the Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday, the country’s supreme court is now stripped of its ability to judge what are known as administrative disputes. In Hungary, this is a wide-ranging description encompassing everything from electoral law to corruption to police abuse to tax evasion.

Instead, a new system will be set up over the next 12 months overseen by Orban’s justice minister, who will control which judges get promoted to settle the administrative disputes. Hungary’s existing independent judiciary would be significantly weakened and have no oversight of the new system.

The move to quash the independence of the judiciary is the latest autocratic move by Orban, who is feeling increasingly emboldened as the beleaguered European Union confronts political threats on all sides, be it from Brexit, the Yellow Vests protests in France, or the rise of far-right parties like AfD in Germany.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/viktor-orban-cements-authoritarian-grip-on-hungarys-courts-15218d4c1e97/

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Let's not forget that, they became part of NATO in 1999 after the so called end of the Cold War.............
And if anyone doesn't think that this asshole is not in cahoose with Putin and his agenda.....................

https://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/27/putin-kremlin-russia-trump-orban-bannon-nationalism-iron-curtain-eu-891843.html


And a book from Robert Kutter.................Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism