Hungary's new prime minister Peter Macar has proposed amendments to the constitution.
According to the proposal, a legal barrier will be set to prevent a person from being prime minister more than twice.
The new article to be included in the constitution will also have retroactive effect. Thus, a person who has served as prime minister for at least 8 years (including breaks) since May 2, 1990, cannot hold this position again. Orban, however, has been prime minister for 20 years (first 4 years, then consecutively 16 years).
Therefore, Viktor Orban, the corrupt kleptocrat who during his rule turned Hungary into one of Europe's backward countries, will not be able to return to the position of prime minister again.
It is true that if the Hungarian Civic Alliance manages to achieve a two-thirds majority in the next elections in parliament, it can amend the constitution again, but this possibility is close to zero.
According to the latest opinion poll, after losing state power, the Hungarian Civic Alliance's rating has fallen to 21 percent.
Another proposed change to the constitution aims to abolish the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty, which was created by the Orban government as a constitutional body with populism of "religion-faith, honor-conscience is lost." This state office had the authority to investigate and take measures against physical and legal entities (political parties, media, NGOs) operating with foreign funding (grants from European Union funds and other organizations). This body will be abolished.
Another proposed change envisages the re-nationalization (return to state subordination) of educational institutions given under the management of public funds allegedly serving "public interests" during the Orban era. These funds were managed by persons close to Orban and aimed to implement a curriculum in the education system aligned with the ruling party's ideology.
In addition, Prime Minister Peter Macar stated that severance pay prescribed by law for three former government members will not be paid. Viktor Orban was supposed to receive 197 thousand euros and also be provided with an office, a car, and a driver at the state's expense. These will not be provided. Peter Macar said that the funds cut from Orban and his team, who "destroyed and indebted the country," will be donated to a secondary school in a village inhabited by Hungarians in Ukraine's Zakarpattia region.
Şahin Cəfərli,
political analyst