Referring to journalists, political opponents and their critics, Victor Orban said earlier this year, “Bag has overworn.” “We will destroy the financial machines that have used corrupt dollars to buy politicians, judges, journalists, pseudo-NGOs and political activists. We will eliminate the entry shadow Army.”
For the Hungarian’s populist Prime Minister, that time has now come. This week, Orban’s Fids Party introduced a bill, according to the Associated Press News Agency, “Wood the government wood to monitor, restricted, punishments and potentially banned organizations, which threatens national prosperity.”
Reporting this news, Hungary’s largest independent news portal Telex, which is usually cautious in its choice, wrote that Hungary had left Europe. Its report had a graphic with a graphic of a black boot -along with the Russian domestic intelligence service, FSB -a graphic.
The draft law on “transparency of public life”, as it is known, was presented in the Hungary Parliament late on Tuesday night. Instead, despite the spontaneous title, if it is adopted, it will be similar to conditioning for another in Russia about freedom of expression. For example, it would allow for the blacklisting of organizations, including media outlets, if they threatened the sovereignty of Hungary using “search to affect public life.”
What does Orban see as dangers for the national sovereign?
The bill agreement, the threat to the national sovereignty -Hungerian constitution in Hangheti, along with the values and provisions of these, includes any of these attempts to illustrate negative illustrations or weakening them. Constitutional values included the unity and harmony of the Christian culture of all Hungarians, Hungary, marriage is being especially understood as a union between a woman and a woman, or as the discovery of peace and cooperation with Oth Popals and countries.
The Bill has described all the legal institutions, registered or not to organizations. “Try to influence any decision -making process or wishes of voters that may involve” affecting public life “activities.”
If the law is adopted, the Hungarian sovereignt conservation office created in early 2024 will be given the power to all organizations to get “foreign support”, whether it receives or without a low lower range, if they receive or receive gifts from abroad. This means that a book falls in this category, as will be in the form of funding of the European Union.
On the request of the body, the government will be able to list all the organizations concerned in a particular register. This 1% will discover far-reaching consequences as a foot to qualify for the Income Tax Rules that private individuals can donate 1% of their annual income tax to non-profit organizations.
If the law is passed, in the future, donors will have to be included in writing that no “foreign donation” is included in their contribution. The organizations listed in the register will not be able to get foreign funds without state approval. If they receive money, they will be punished with heavy fines and may even be restricted.
The draft law does not object to begging in the register for any appeal.
In summary: If the law is adopted, the arbon will be used to ban anyone or in any way or in any way that criticizes him and his rule, from the website to political parties.
The goal of new law ‘Ukrainian propagation’ is
Orban’s government has already passed several laws in Hungary aimed at defaming critics, discovered as the 2018 “Stop Soros” law, which offers any proposal or entrepreneur offer to offer an illegal offer to help an immigrant claim. But that bill goes beyond that, a fact that the government is not hidden.
Government spokesperson Zolton Kovax wrote, “The government has made it clear that it is not just about the oversite.” “This is about Hungary’s right to self -determination in front of coordinated international pressure.”
Kovax said that foreign-funded NGOs and media outlets had previously campaigned about migration migration and gender-related issues, but were now propagating war-war and Ukrain. “Transparency law is the best tool against Ukrainian propaganda,” he insisted.
Bill ‘Follow Russian Playbook’
Independent media outlets, civil organizations and opposition parties have been united in their scary criticism of draft law.
“Officers want to control everything, they do not tolerate any location of free activity,” the Telex Portal wrote. “Whatever is independent is not under their influence, they are closed, carrying away, making it impossible.”
One of Hungary’s most important civil rights organizations, Hungary Civil Liberty Union said in a statement, “It is not about protecting sovereignty. The government is trembling at the loss of power.”
Peter Magyar, leader of Hungary’s biggest opposition Tissza Party, said the bill was “another step on Putin Path.” He said that Orban was adopting things from his teacher [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.
“Bill … follow the Russian Playbook,” Budapest Mayor Gargali Karkani wrote on Facebook, saying that Orban “was trying to turn our motherland into Russia, Budapest is not Moscow and will never happen.”
If the law is applied, the work of independent media outlets and NGOs will be extremely difficult, as many of them rely on 1% tax rules for their activities. They can be banned for minor testing violations.
But this is the Tisza Party, which is currently ahead of the faides in the elections, which actually takes the brunt of the law, beyond the Parliamentary elections of the next spring.
Orban has long claimed that the European Union and Ukraine have hit the Tissza party to change power in Hungary. This week, he took a step forward and posted a video on Facebook, stating that the Hungarian opposition party played an active role in an operation by Ukrainian Secret Services. He accused Magyar and his party of launching “an attack against Hungary Armed Forces”. There is no evidence for this claim.
The “transparency” law will be debated in the coming week, and it is not yet known when a vote will take place. It is certain that the European Court of Justiceville is mostly declared law illegal if it is adopted, but it may take years. By then, Orban must have achieved its target of maintenance power at all costs.
This article was original in German.
