The representative from Jobbik and then from Hungary also left on Tuesday has submitted a bill to parliament, which would abolish the rule that no referendum could be scheduled for the date of parliamentary, municipal or EP elections.
János Volner justified this on the grounds that it is logistically much easier to hold votes at the same time than separately, and it is also much more cost-effective to hold votes at the same time. But he also mentioned that this joins Tímea Szabó’s earlier proposal, who would have lifted the same ban in September.
János Volner
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Volner he already had ideas last fall to modify the election rules, which Fidesz was able to support. Thus, the rule was voted that parties wishing to set up a national list must run in 71 individual constituencies instead of the previous 27. This in turn diverted the opposition to a common list. And if its current amendment were also passed, the government could coordinate with the parliamentary campaign on preschool education. initiated a referendum on non-transfer surgery, that is
again, the streets could be filled with publicly paid scavenging posters. And because of the guaranteed high turnout, the government shouldn’t have to worry about the validity of the referendum either.A According to the evaluation of HCLU this would also undermine equal opportunities for candidates, as opposition parties would be even less able to offset the Fidesz advantage provided by government communication.
The details of the proposal submitted on behalf of Volner show that it does not explicitly favor the opposition’s referendum initiative, as it would make the collection of signatures subject to the owner’s permission for the initiators to collect signatures in a private area open to the public. It is also worth noting that it was Volner who he attacked the anti-Fudan referendum at the Curia. This is expected to be decided in November. And a referendum on the government does not require signatures anyway.
While so far only one proposal could have been on the ballot paper, from now on if the initiator is the same, it would all be on one sheet. In such cases, the validity of the votes shall be examined on a question-by-question basis. A vote is invalid if the ballot paper does not contain a valid vote or if the voter casts a vote for both answers.
You would introduce a common procedure the time limit for lodging an appeal would be reduced from 5 to 3 days. Similarly, in the case of a joint procedure, the deadline for submitting a constitutional complaint would be reduced from 5 to 3 days.
These would be decided by the parliamentary individual constituency election committee even if the violation is “has an effect only in the individual constituency “. An objection to the involvement of media service providers and the press and cinemas in the election campaign would be adjudicated by the National Electoral Commission. But an objection to a district and local or on-demand media service or non-nationally distributed press product would be left to the parliamentary individual constituency election committee responsible for the media content provider’s domicile or residence.
Volner, who is initiating the amendments, can trust the goodwill of Fidesz, as several points in the proposal require two-thirds. True, the politician is also increasingly voting with the pro-government majority, as is the case, for example for foundation outsourcing also happened.
János Volner he referred to it on his sidethat by combining the referendum and the parliamentary elections, you want to save money for the budget: “Holding a referendum takes approx. It costs 6 billion forints, and there are two of them right away: here is the child protection referendum and Gergely Karácsony also wants a referendum on his own issues. Why should these parliamentary elections not take place at the same time?“According to him, opposition proposals like this have not been passed so far because”their submission has become, from a legislative point of view, as lame male work as their pre-selection with spectacular misfortunes, we have helped them a little and we have done it properly ”. He trusts that Parliament will adopt the amendments unanimously.
At the same time Tímea Szabó’s proposal would not have shortened the deadlines for appeals and made it more difficult to collect signatures, it would have deleted only the one paragraph from the Referendum Act that “no national referendum may be scheduled for the day of the general election of members of parliament, members of the European Parliament, local councilors and mayors, or for the period before and within 41 days thereafter. If the national referendum cannot be scheduled for this reason, the national referendum must be scheduled within 131 days after the election. “.
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