All Voters are Equal but...
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Eszter Bodnár
Abstract
Equal suffrage is a basic principle of democratic elections which is included in most constitutions and international human rights documents. It applies to the design of the boundaries of the political community, electoral system and electoral procedure. However, there are special cases where the effectiveness of this principle is questionable. This paper deals with two different aspects of the Hungarian regulation concerning the voting rights of Hungarian citizens living abroad. The paper gives an overview of the regulation and presents the recent constitutional disputes and relevant case law of Hungarian and European fundamental rights protection mechanisms. Finally, it opens the debate by posing some key questions on the future of the Hungarian situation and more generally, on the level of protection of voting rights before the national and international institutions.
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- Two Faces of Self-determination in Political Divorce
- Notes & Essays
- Towards the Establishment of an International Constitutional Court
- Constitutionality of the Agreement between the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Republic of Korea and Japan on the Issue of ‘Comfort Women’ on 28 December 2015
- All Voters are Equal but...
- Developments Austria
- Special Topic: Establishment and Unconstitutionality of Political Parties
- Developments CEE
- Special Topic: Procedural Rules and Practices Grounding the Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Romania
- Georgian Constitutional Court: The System of Legal Capacity of Natural Persons and its Impact upon the Georgian Legislation
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- Two Faces of Self-determination in Political Divorce
- Notes & Essays
- Towards the Establishment of an International Constitutional Court
- Constitutionality of the Agreement between the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Republic of Korea and Japan on the Issue of ‘Comfort Women’ on 28 December 2015
- All Voters are Equal but...
- Developments Austria
- Special Topic: Establishment and Unconstitutionality of Political Parties
- Developments CEE
- Special Topic: Procedural Rules and Practices Grounding the Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Romania
- Georgian Constitutional Court: The System of Legal Capacity of Natural Persons and its Impact upon the Georgian Legislation
