Demokrata asked constitutional lawyer Zoltán Lomnici Jr. about the demonstrations of the past few days. Here are some thoughts from this.
– Legally, how do you evaluate the current movements?
- Looking at the events in Hungary in recent years, we already know examples of provocative actions against public order, the peace of the Hungarian state and society, and politically motivated organization. These attempts to attack public order were intended to hinder the unconditional enforcement of the most important principles and institutions that form the basis of the legal system, and thus to create domestic political uncertainty. LV of 2018 on the right of assembly. Act made the regulation more transparent and flexible for both citizens and authorities in several respects. This only meant appropriate tightening at certain points: for example, according to the new rules, it is not possible to announce a demonstration until the event is reported to the police - in case of failure to do so, the organizers commit a violation of the rules - thus making it more traceable and transparent for those who want to demonstrate, as well as for the organizers may become the legal nature of the event to be organized. However, the person who persuades the spontaneously protesting crowd to move from the place of the demonstration to another location for a specific purpose and to demonstrate there appears to both the police and the participants as the organizer of the new mass meeting, thus violating the right to assembly is considered an organizer according to the law, regardless of whether this new demonstration is also a spontaneous demonstration.
– To what extent can the emergence of left-wing politicians at the demonstrations influence the processes?
- The appearance of profit-seeking left-wing politicians adds fuel to the fire - staying with the metaphor - that was fueled by left-wing organizers. What the demonstrations have in common, however, is clearly the intensification of feelings directed against the majority Hungarian society, a kind of Bolshevik-type mentality. In connection with these activities, it is worth devoting some thoughts to the overseas image of the topic, which shows how in different historical eras the investigation of such "oppositions" can be interpreted in different ways, sometimes even causing the opposite effect to what the reckless provocateurs of the case originally intended to achieve. It has been almost eighty-five years since one of the investigative committees of the United States House of Representatives, the Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was established to investigate the anti-American, subversive activities of private owners, public employees and their organizations that raise suspicions of fascist or communist connections. Nowadays, instead of an honest discourse on social problems, the American and Western European leftists are conducting a permanent, suicidal campaign against the police, for example. It cannot be ruled out that this recipe is being followed by the Hungarian left and that this narrative is "embedded" by the "expertise" of foreign-funded pseudo-civilian NGOs that appear from time to time and can be evaluated as harassment against the Hungarian police . In December 2018, in Kossuth Square in front of the Parliament, the increasingly aggressive protesters provoked the police, throwing eggs and beer cans at the police assigned to security duties. In parentheses, I note that the situation is also changing in the USA, according to Fox News, a Florida man was recently arrested for allegedly throwing a hot dog at a police officer who warned him that he was violating the relevant city ordinance.
the entire interview on the demokrat.hu website.
Photo: György T. Szántó/Demokrata
