Greta Thunberg's climate hysteria was supposed to prepare the 2019 EP elections. This was a campaign by the Greens and the entire left, a well thought-out topic that can appeal to old, young, poor and rich anywhere in the developed world, seemingly without politics.
At that time, I went on a Friday afternoon to see how the Hungarian version of Friday for Future was going. The activists stood in front of the Parliament, exactly as many as were needed to stretch the molino. A gentleman apparently from Brussels walked out of the Parliament building in the company of some opposition politicians and of course the media was there. Mr. Green from Brussels wanted to talk to a Hungarian protester as well, but it was difficult, because until then someone had to stand in the line of people holding a raincoat. And there were no more people.
This case came to my mind because, according to my experience, in our country, politicians and members of parliament perform the tasks that trained activists used to do elsewhere. For example, cordon breaking. The Open Society just didn't get it, the party has no members, or the news value of the action is simply greater if, for example, the representative Hadházy, who investigates corruption, is lying in the dust. He points well over there, the West can be horrified. How can the Orbán dictatorship treat the ordinary citizen, if even the representative is not protected by any law! As usual, Hadházy will say this in one of the German public service TV's reports about Hungary, while the camera focuses on the blood trickling down his face.
The current molino of the representatives did not have to be kept, they were skillfully stretched out to the Karmelita gate. "We demand the abolition of the special legal order resulting in arbitrariness and government by decree, and the restoration of the role of the Parliament in controlling the government!" - announced the caption - while the representatives of the moment sat down on the cold ground in the company of the independent guest protagonist Hadházy to start the inspection function on the spot.
Like the young people in March, they wanted to collect their further demands into points, but no matter how hard they tried, they only reached seven points.
I found out about all this on the FB page of Momentum's Roma and agricultural expert representative, quite by accident. Until now, I didn't even know that Mr. Lőcsei was in the world.
Momentary demands make me smile. I would send Mr. Lőcsei on a study trip to Berlin, let him see what the free world is like. He could sit in the Bundestag and listen to the legislative processes there. Maybe then he and his fellow party members wouldn't preach such nonsense about the special legal order and arbitrary rule. True, for that you would need to know some German, let's say not at the basic level of Gutentag, as far as he has managed to get in foreign language learning during the forty years of his life.
Momentum, the youth party, demands clean and free elections that ensure proportional representation. I don't know what this means in their use of words, since the 2022 elections were monitored with a prying eye by a thousand foreign observers and opposition committee members planted in each district, yet they found no irregularities. I don't even know what they mean by proportional representation, because with the German electoral law that has just been amended, they might not even get into the parliament. The new law there prohibits electoral party alliances, and an individual mandate only counts if the party has reached the five percent threshold, etc. The opposition alliance, joint list, furniture gathering and moving apart are all illegal in the eyes of New Germany. Despite the many rolling dollars, the small amortized parties or those that have not yet built themselves would, based on the German model, fall out of the parliament without their feet even reaching the threshold. I am thinking here of Párbeszéd, LMP, MSZP, Jobbik, and Everyone's Hungary, and this fate would probably await the purple ones as well. They, in their rightful way, factionalize, campaign, and demand the non-existent rule of law and the abolition of government by decree.
I would like to inform the uninformed young people that during the Covid epidemic, the extraordinary legal order was introduced in most countries of Europe (even if it did not have as much press coverage as ours), which gives the right to rule by decree. Since then it has been extended from time to time, only now with reference to the war. This makes it possible to govern by edicts, but they still don't use it unless they have to. As far as I know, our parliament is also constantly creating laws, but maybe Momentum cannot distinguish between a law and a decree.
Their fifth point is about restoring the right to strike. Compared to other countries, there are really few strikes in our country. Perhaps because we are not yet ideologically advanced enough, but no one took away the right to strike from the workers. It is up to them and their interest representatives whether they stop work and take to the streets. If they don't live with it, it's their own decision. Not like, for example, in Germany, where civil servants and civil servants - including teachers - cannot strike. I would look at the teachers' protestors in Germany, for example, as they are fired in a completely legal way on the night of a difficult (striking) day. Starting to catch up with the wages of the entire public sector is a good-sounding demand, but you should know that the catch-up has already started. Unfortunately, not only qualified teachers can receive as many salary increases as, for example, an untrained representative. And I would watch it - although I'd rather not! - what would today's opposition use to settle teacher salaries.
I don't want to respond to all the points, but I would definitely highlight one, the rubber bone of the lack of press freedom. Just because they are mentioned many times does not make them right. The famous company would try to write and say what it thinks in the world of Western press freedom. They wouldn't get a forum for it, their violent opposition papers would be banned for reasons of constitutional protection, the frequency would be taken away, they would be made impossible, I could list the German examples. Anyone who does not enter at the same time will not be given the opportunity to appear, a microphone, etc. The latest news is that, on the recommendation of the green German Ministry of Economy, the state would subsidize privately-run dailies, publishers, and advertising newspapers with hundreds of millions of euros per year. This would make the federal government the most important patron of the media. In addition to public service TV channels, the state would also finance the printed press. We know the proverb well: he who pays, orders the bill. In this case, the media content.
The cordon-breaking fathers-in-law are in the wrong role, they were not chosen as street fighters. They leave that task to their voters! When I read and hear such a mixed-up text, I am horrified by the (lack of) standard. What kind of meaningful work can these representatives contribute to the creation of laws? I wonder why the passive suffrage does not include conditions in terms of education, language skills, professional practice, and experience? Which, by the way, is what every employer demands from their employees. We need soft words, unfulfillable promises, and cosmeticized biographies that deceive voters. One would expect something different from the father-in-law and mother-in-law who are responsible for the fate of the country.
The author is a historian
Source: Magyar Hírlap
