Wrestling with Constitutionalism: the Supermajority and the Hungarian Constitutional Court
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Attila Vincze
Reader in European and Comparative Public Law at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.
Abstract
Since the elections of 2010, the right-wing coalition has a supermajority in the Hungarian Parliament, and is able to amend the Constitution without any further ado. The Constitution became a part of the political tool-kit which may and is amended as the government needs it to be amended. Under these circumstances, the Constitutional Court cannot be a vigorous guardian of constitutional values, and the Parliament did everything in order to housetrain the formerly widely acknowledged Constitutional Court: cut back its powers filled the bench with rather loyal justices and blocked the critical decisions.
The present article is aimed to describe and to critically analyze these strategies in a national and European context.
About the author
Reader in European and Comparative Public Law at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Table of Contents
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- The International Validity of the Venezuelan Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights
- Legisprudence Limitations on Constitutional Amendments? Reflections on The Czech Constitutional Court’s Declaration of Unconstitutional Constitutional Act
- The New Zealand Food Bill and Global Administrative Law: A Recipe for Democratic Engagement?
- Notes
- Wrestling with Constitutionalism: the Supermajority and the Hungarian Constitutional Court
- Developments Austria
- Focus: Article 47 CFREU in the case law of the three Supreme Courts in Austria
- Evident breaches of § 41 para 7 Asylum Act constitute an infringement of Art 47 CFREU
- Ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the application of the CFREU
- Article 47 CFREU: scope of application and accessoriness
- Developments CEE
- Lithuanian Constitutional Court: The eligibility ban for those removed under impeachment procedure
- Bosnian Constitutional Court: Law on Personal Identification Number not consistent with rule of law
- Book Reviews
- Sarah M H Nouwen, Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-01078-9 (hardback), 524 pp.
