Two elections in Hungary

Maybe I'm a little uninformed about legislative matters, but I still have to ask the question, doesn't this opposition primary require some kind of more effective legal regulation?

Because competition is competition! Economic competition is regulated by laws, the degree of deregulation cannot go above a certain level, at least where national governments see this as a strategic goal. Among other things, the competition office supervises economic processes, and in the field of sports there are also offices and associations for each sport, such as the MLSZ, which properly controls the teams and competitions. The mediums fall under the media authority and I could list them.

The national, local government and referendum elections are well regulated, based on the electoral law, the National Election Commission and the Office and its local organizations supervise the legal order.

However, in the primaries, according to the intentions of the opposition and the current situation, deregulation is complete. After all, they do what and how they want. Online or by voting in person, without a supervisory body, with or without mutual agreement.

Various forms of political marketing (where does the money come from?) are increasingly appearing on the internet and probably soon on the advertising surfaces of the settlements as well for whom the voters can vote for in a given electoral district. The mailboxes will soon be flooded with leaflets, there will be suggestive phone calls from the six prime ministerial candidates, and then the fights about who cheated and who didn't. Looking at poor Torgyán: who will be the tongue of the scales?

Everyone wants power. They can't even agree on how to conduct it, they are blackmailing each other that, for example, if there is no online voting, they will leave the opposition party (Andriska should think about this, says Ágica), various tactics - otherwise legal within normal limits - are going on, the vote counting not resolved. Yet how do they imagine this? What ensures transparency?

When can the campaign start? Normally 50 days before the election. Opposition parties are already intruding, and there is no single rule for when people can be harassed. Prime Minister candidate Jakab is already leading his competitors from the red corner. The Gyurcsánys are still waiting for Christmas in the blue corner.

I wonder how much people will realize that this is not the election yet, don't look for Fidesz or Viktor Orbán on the ballot papers, because he is not running in this election?

Then the whole thing can be crocheted easily. An obstruction can start, during which the candidates become completely discredited. For example: is the war of self-nominations starting? What prohibits it? There is not a single orphaned knocking tag! They don't need it! In the case of normal elections, the Election Commission makes arrangements in this case. Now who will tidy up?

Of course, all this is not only a problem of the opposition parties. With their deregulated action, they are undermining the foundations of democracy and the credibility of free, secret, general elections. By the time the actual election comes around, everyone's snowshoes will be full of all the mud from the primaries. And I also recommend Mikszáth's priceless lines to the future united representative candidates (who are now only representative candidates-candidates), as follows:

"After all, the charm of the entire election is the many deliberations, tactics, and cunning, not the victory itself. The elected big man is no longer as interesting as he was, he is half used up; for the masses rejoice only twice in a popular man: first, when they can lift them up, and secondly, when they can put them down.”

After all, the parliamentary elections in Hungary will only take place in the spring of 2022! Of course they will have a second time then...

Photo: MTI/Zoltán Máthé

Quote: Kálmán Mikszáth from the article Two elections in Hungary