BREAKING: Hungary's parliament on Monday approved a bill giving PM Viktor Orban's government extraordinary powers during the coronavirus pandemic, without setting an end date for their expiration.
“The extraordinary measures are related to the pandemic, to its prevention, its elimination and the damaging economic consequences,” said Csaba Domotor, a deputy minister in Orban's Cabinet Office. “A time limit cannot be declared in this situation because there is no one ... who can say how many months of struggle we have to prepare for.”
“The opposition is united on the issue of giving the government powers which are significantly more extensive than the authority in the Constitution,” said Tamas Harangozo, a lawmaker with the opposition Socialist Party." The opposition's request is that “the government accept that it can only do this within time limits.”
“It is clear that states need to act swiftly in order to protect their populations from the COVID-19 pandemic, and I understand that extraordinary measures may be required to do so,” said Ingibjorg Gisladottir, director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
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