About two thousand demonstrators pressed kravallutrustad the police to parliament’s gates on Kossuthplatsen in the centre of Budapest, and the police responded with pepper sprays. According to a statement, at least four policemen have been injured in the riots.
the Protest was preceded by a dramatic day in parliament, where the opposition is first submitted thousands of provisions against one of the government’s bill, and then for several hours blocked the rostrum while members blew whistles – everything to prevent the vote on a number of government proposals.
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a opposititionsledamot Orbán in an unscheduled hearing, which was broadcast live on the web.
” Are you proud of slaverilagen? Or do you prefer to call it livegenskap? insisted the honourable member Bence Tordai face of a clearly disturbed the prime minister.
– The great debater has, apparently, not a word to say, he continued ironically, in a clip that was spread in social media.
”Slaverilagen” is the name of the opposition has given a government proposal that gives the employer the right to force employees to work up to 400 hours of overtime per year – the equivalent of almost an extra workday a week.
the governing party, Fidesz through both this and a number of other suggestions in the polls that the opposition ostentatiously boycotted. Fidesz and a small alliansparti have a super majority in the house in over two-thirds. The opposition has already declared that the votes did not go right.
at the same time as the utskällda ”slaverilagen” clubbed voted the majority also through another controversial law, which in practice creates a new system of courts, in parallel with the existing. These so-called administrative courts will, among other things, to have great authority over the election laws, corruption within the state apparatus, and the right to protest.
the Law also gives the justice minister the power to appoint, dismiss and punish judges.
called the Hungarian Helsinki committee, the law ”a serious threat to the rule of law in Hungary and is a violation of the values on which the country signed when it joined the EU.”
Orbán, who is himself denotes ”illiberal democracy” as their ideal, has since he became head of government in 2010 devoted considerable effort to take control of the media and the courts – something that has received sharp criticism from the EUROPEAN court of justice and other EU-countries.
the EU parliament voted in september to launch a lawsuit against Hungary for the country’s ”systematic threat” to democracy – something that, in theory, can lead to Hungary losing its right to vote in the union.