Posted on 06/05/2023 3:24:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Last Thursday the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to express its concern over Hungary’s scheduled presidency of the EU Council.
The deplorable state of Hungarian democracy is by now widely known. Since 2010, prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party have systematically undermined the principles and institutions that underpin democratic governance.
They have worked to curtail EU values such as academic freedom, gender equality and LGBTI+ rights, most recently in their copy-paste Russian law, which bans the visibility of the LGBTI+ community in public spaces.
A core principle of any democracy is free and fair elections. Under Orbán’s leadership, this democratic norm has dramatically eroded. Electoral laws have been manipulated, gerrymandering is rife and media pluralism has been suppressed.
For the most recent national elections, the OSCE concluded that there was a “fundamental lack of a level playing field” in Hungary. For these reasons, the European Parliament concluded last year that Hungary was an electoral autocracy.
If Hungary would now apply to join the EU, it would fall miserably short on meeting the Copenhagen Criteria.
As a non-democratic state, Hungary is unfit to be Council president. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
There’s no pest like a Budapest.
Arresting people for practicing free speech is a bigger threat to democracy than not promoting gay stuff.
Can he be our president?
Amazing. Leftists do not let anyone be in control.
This is our fair thing.
Except for you.
Some EU countries jail people for criticizing the government on social media but according to these two morons that isn’t a threat to democracy. Where do they find these fools to write this garbage?
Indeed.
Orban: Hungary should control its borders, we don’t encourage war between Ukraine and Russia, and you won’t subvert us with LGBTQ propaganda
DC/Brussels: You are literally Hitler!
Faggotry SHOULD be oppressed. Homosexual acts should always be illegal.
Got it.
Orban is great. Why does Hungary need the ee-eeew?
Anything that conflicts with leftardism is a threat to the sham democracy.
and stay away from the children.
Euro weenie Commie BS. Go Hungary 🇭🇺
I wonder if this has something to do with Hungary passing a “Stop Soros” law meant to stop the influx of illegal aliens?
Because Hungary 1) would end the proxy war in Ukraine and 2) is a conservative nation opposed to much of the EU’s left-wing agenda, including the LGBT and Green agenda.
What they mean is that Hungary will not surrender its national sovereignty and allow Muslim hordes to invade the country, nor will it allow its children to be groomed in schools, nor will it allow George Soros and other wealthy foreigners pour money into the country with the express purpose of imposing their will on it.
Hungary is most assuredly a Democracy. Orban was elected overwhelmingly in elections that were a lot more free and fair than the ones the US had in 2020. The Globalist Yurp Elites don’t like the fact that the Hungarians won’t bow down to them. That is all this trash means.
Well, when a clown and a serial killer love each other, very much....
By that metric the US would be denied.
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