Director General for the Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó posted a lengthy public message on his Facebook page last week. In it, he calls out Zoltán Fleck, a law professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, who is an avid critic of the current Orbán administration and has been calling for a new government for years.
‘If I understand correctly, Zoltán Fleck, a “law professor” at ELTE, is once again, after 2021, dreaming that the left will win the elections and is once again planning “a revolution that is needed, not a change of government”. Well, let’s see from where we can remember the name Fleck, who seems to have gone mad with civil governance,’ Director Szánthó writes in his post.
The Fidesz–KDNP coalition in power in Hungary has had a constitutional supermajority since 2010, something that would be virtually impossible to achieve for a potentially incoming left-wing government. Thus the current constitution would stay in place even in the event of a new government. Professor Fleck, however, thinks he has found a solution to that conundrum.
‘Those who remember will recall that he was one of the intellectual authors of the completely absurd idea four years ago, that if the equally absurd left-wing rainbow coalition led by Péter Márki-Zay were to win, but only gained a simple majority in parliament, the constitution would still have to be rewritten—which, as we know, has required a two-thirds majority since 1990.
Even then, very few people in the country understood this idea, given that common sense dictates that half of something is less than two-thirds of something. In order to defend and explain this absurdity, Fleck also stated that in such a case, “we would have to temporarily give up on the pure enforcement of the rule of law. But this has always been the case during regime changes and after great revolutions”…
So this “teacher” got back on the crazy train—my God, he teaches young law students at the law faculty!—and claims that if Péter Magyar, whom he favours now and who, like he and MZP [Péter Márki-Zay], exhibits psychopathological symptoms, wins the next election, then “pressure should be applied to the President of the Republic through blackmail and threats if necessary, because the head of state has the power not to invite the winning party’s candidate to form a government. Then, if the losing side fails again, a new election can be called.”And that’s apparently why we need another revolution and all that,’ Szánthó has continued to rip into the controversial law professor.
‘Anyway, none of this will be very relevant, because it would require an opposition victory next year, which apparently only Fleck and the narrative-driving pollsters who are in cahoots with him are dreaming about,’ he concluded his post.
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