SZEMA — Liberal Party Newsletter 12/2011
SZEMA - Free People for Hungary/Liberal Party
Digest of Newsletter 2011/12, 20 December 2011
The Newsletter gives the texts of three statements issued by SZEMA in December.
Recalling the factors that contributed to Hungary's present economic stagnation, SZEMA notes that IMF financial assistance is essential to recovery. This involves accepting the IMF's economic-policy terms, which may include: repealing the special tax on the banking industry; finding a consensus solution to the problem of mortgages expressed in foreign currency; reversing actions that impede market forces, preserving central bank independence, repealing the veto right of the Budgetary Council and electing a new membership; ending the system of flat-rate income tax; radically cutting expenditure on administration. Hopefully agreement with the IMF can be reached, but the best way for the government to show goodwill would be for it to resign and call new elections; that would reassure the markets and SZEMA.
The Fidesz government has used its two-thirds majority to introduce a law preparatory to the reintroduction of military conscription, allowing details of males over the age of 14 to be collected and/or drawn from any source of data. The state and its military leaders will obtain information that may include details of family members and friends, blood group, and state of health. The information is required to safeguard "Hungary's independence, territorial integrity, frontiers laid down in international treaties, its inhabitants and their material goods," according to the legislation. The statement points to the militaristic nature of the Orbán government and the centralist form of state it is imposing.
The Constitutional Court (whose powers are being severely curtailed from January 1) has reached decisions on three long-standing matters of contention: it has declared passages of the media act, the new penal code, and the act on church affairs to be unconstitutional. The media act terms imposing restrictions on the written press have been repealed by the court, as have penal code terms on judicial competence—on weighing restricted information about witnesses, and arbitrary restrictions imposed on those remanded in custody—and terms of the act on church affairs covered by restrictions under parliamentary rules on last-minute amendments. Disappointment is expressed that the Constitutional Court has failed to rule on the expropriation by the state of private pension funds, the rejection by the National Electoral Commission of applications for a referendum on the Basic Law due to replace the Constition on January 1, or the legislation restricting the Constitutional Court's own powers.
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