{"id":1804,"date":"2010-10-28T03:52:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2010-10-28T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:52:04","slug":"the-rule-of-law-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"The rule of law in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I felt that despite their &#8220;anti-communist&#8221; political rhetoric and right-of-center stand on many issues, it is Hungary&#8217;s Fidesz party that carries the true legacy of the communist era. The party&#8217;s leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, seems hell-bent on governing in the style of one-party regimes, and now that he enjoys a two thirds parliamentary majority, he has the mandate to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I did not expect that they will show their true nature this boldly and this rapidly, causing concern even among international investors, as they expressed their intent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-10-27\/hungary-bill-threatens-investors-faith-in-rule-of-law-commerzbank-says.html\">curb the jurisdiction of the country&#8217;s constitutional court<\/a>, which happened to declare one of their recent measures unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1804' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I felt that despite their &#8220;anti-communist&#8221; political rhetoric and right-of-center stand on many issues, it is Hungary&#8217;s Fidesz party that carries the true legacy of the communist era. The party&#8217;s leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, seems hell-bent on governing in the style of one-party regimes, and now that he enjoys a two <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1804' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-politics","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}