• KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world
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              10 months ago

              The worst part is, that the people who voted for them are ashamed of their vote, because they either refused or lied on exit polls. At least now everyone can see how the government is making clowns of themselves (the speaker of the parliament drove into a traffic pole while drunk last week for example), they don’t act on their promises, argue with each other and lie. There are constant protests in the two largest cities of Bratislava and Košice, where many people gather to show the disagreement with the coalition and ridicule the politicians. A new meme emerged in the past few days about the fact, that more people signed a petition to remove the new minister of health from the office in a day, than the amount who voted for her in the election. There’s also an observable difference between what people in large cities and foreign mail-in voters vote for and what people from villages with worse access to information and who are targeted by the adverts and propaganda by the populist extremist politicians vote for. Also the opposition is theoretically more favoured than the current coalition, but because there are many different parties, the votes get split and many parties don’t get through the threshold that is needed for them to be even a part of the parliament and their seats get assigned to the ones who get there. We would probably benefit a lot from some kind of ranked-choice voting. We will see what happens in the upcoming presidential elections. At least it is a 2 round election, so the split opposition can get behind a common favourite.

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    10 months ago

    In the article it says that the 120 necessary signatures are already collected to take Hungarys voting rights away, so does this matter?

    Or how is this working?

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      10 months ago

      Or how is this working?

      This is what I found:

      Situation in Hungary and EU frozen funds:

      Plenary will wrap up the discussion held on Wednesday with Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Lahbib and Commission President von der Leyen on the rule of law situation in Hungary and the EU frozen funds with the adoption of a resolution at noon. MEPs are expected to support challenging the Commission’s decision to unfreeze funds for Hungary before the European Court of Justice.

      Up to the European Court of Justice if the EP makes this a resolution. We’ll hear more info the coming days , I hope. EP has been working this angle for some while now. ( source EU- EP, plenary session 18 jan)