Hungary’s Orban Uses Pandemic to Seize Unlimited Power

Expand People keep their distance as they queue up in front of a post office in Pecs, Hungary, Monday, March 16, 2020. © 2020 Tamas Soki/MTI via AP Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has seized the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine fundamental principles of democracy and rule of law in a way that is hard to reconcile as necessary for public health. An emergency draft law will, if adopted, give Orban and the executive branch extraordinary powers to suspend certain laws and implement others by decree for as long as the emergency continues. The law would sidestep the parliamentary process and…

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