“Enough of authoritarianism!” »» : tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Hungary on Sunday, May 18, against a new bill endangering NGOs and the accused of the accused of “Make the country's sovereignty”. “I want to live in a free Hungary, not in a dictatorship”could we read on a banner deployed in front of Parliament, alongside Hungarian, European and rainbow flags.
“This law is full of absurdities, it contains nothing concrete. Just like in Russia, we can now be accused of having criticized the State and being treated as an agent from abroad ”deplored Gabor, a 25 -year -old student who preferred to silence his last name.
Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had promised in March “A big Easter cleaning” against his rivals, qualified as “Bugs”put his threat to execution. After the vote of a series of constitutional amendments restricting the rights of LGBT + people and binationals, the ruling party deposited, at the start of the week, in Parliament, a text on “The transparency of public life”.
Over 300 NGOs and media, including Amnesty and Transparency International, have signed a common letter denouncing a maneuver “Authoritarian to stay in power”one year of legislative elections which promise to be tight. These are “Silence all critical voices and eliminate what remains of Hungarian democracy”they estimated, on the model of what is happening “In Russia”. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) called on European Union leaders to “Condemn unequivocal” This legislation, which should be endorsed by deputies next month.
“Poutinization of Hungary”
The opposition also denounced a “Poutinization” of Hungary. “The Prime Minister obviously learned a lot of his mentor”Russian president, Vladimir Putin, reacted Peter Magyar, whose conservative Tisza party is well placed in the polls.
Viktor Orban defended, on Sunday, before militants of his party, this text which aims, according to the government, to dismantle “Propaganda networks” funded by foreign funds. “Yes to the political debate, yes to freedom of expression, no to foreign money”he said.
Under the law, organizations “Vioring or criticizing” the values inscribed in the Constitution, in particular “The primacy of marriage, family and organic sexes”may be placed on a black list, after recommendation of the sovereignty authority established last year.
In this case, they will have to request authorization from the anti -iblanching body to receive funds from abroad. Their bank accounts will be placed under surveillance and donor transfers, blocked if it turns out that the objective of this money is“Influence on public life”. If these rules were infringed, heavy fines would be imposed, up to twenty-five times the amount of financial aid received, with threat of prohibition of activities in the event of recurrence.
Source: Lemonde