Tisza Backtracks on Constitutional Amendment After Fidesz Backlash over ‘Christian Culture’ Clause
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Tisza backtracks on constitutional amendment after Fidesz backlash over ‘Christian culture’ clause
Prime Minister Péter Magyar and the governing Tisza Party have revised a controversial constitutional amendment proposal after strong criticism from the opposition Fidesz over plans that would have removed references to the protection of Hungary’s “Christian culture” from the Fundamental Law.Continue reading
The sentence about protecting constitutional identity and Christian culture remains.
Péter Magyar has submitted an amendment to the Tisza Party's amendment to the Fundamental Law, to make it clear that they only want to abolish the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty, announced Márton Melléthei-Barna, a politician from Tisza, at a meeting of the justice and constitutional affairs committee. According to the original amendment - one of the submitters of which was Márton Melléthei-Barna - these two sentences would have been d…
He believes that his speech was necessary for this.
The government says there is no need for an office that acts as a "political bludgeon" that stigmatizes people.
"We don't know why they wanted to abolish it, but it is welcome that the government backed down from its intention to amend it as a result of our speech and nearly 40,000 protest signatures," the Fidesz faction leader wrote in his latest post.
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