The liberal Denník N writes that the biggest debate in the campaign was caused by the opposition's plan to abolish the constitution adopted in 2011 even without a constitutional majority.

In an article published on the online platform of the liberal Denník N, he emphasized that the Hungarian opposition risks civil war with its most radical plan to change the Orbán system, according to experts. The biggest controversy in the Hungarian election campaign was caused by the united opposition's plan to abolish the constitution adopted by Viktor Orbán's government in 2011 even without a constitutional majority. Péter Márki-Zay, the leader of the opposition, claims that the current constitution is illegitimate and that if they come to power, they will abolish it and prepare a new one, which will be confirmed by a referendum.

According to the Hungarian Constitutional Court, this would be an attack on democracy, or even an attempted coup d'état. Márki-Zay assembled a group of experts whose task is to work out how the coalition should act when changing the constitution.

Constitutional lawyer András Jakab was the first to react to the opposition's plan to abolish the constitution without a constitutional majority, calling the idea stupid. Jakab claims that there is a real problem with the current constitutional arrangement, as the opposition's governance options may be limited if it gets into government.

However, according to him, the "legal nuclear bomb" pulled out by the opposition is a scenario for starting a civil war.

The representatives of Fidesz decided on the new constitution in 2011 without the opposition, but they were given the opportunity to do so when they legitimately won the parliamentary elections in 2010 with a two-thirds majority. According to Jakab, there is no total dictatorship in Hungary and the use of revolutionary tools is therefore unacceptable. The government of Viktor Orbán does not pay intensive attention to this plan of the opposition. The prime minister only briefly touched on this topic at his year-end press conference. According to him, this cannot be taken seriously and called it a political bluff.

Source: mandiner.hu

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