The election campaign has been running for two weeks since early February. The parties try to present matters negative to the counterparts in the highest number possible, while present themselves in the most positive light possible. Policy Agenda has studied who could force the issue on the society and who managed to perform better in the past one and a half months.
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Last week Policy Agenda analysed what is the campaign expected to be like in spring. Zero risk and the possibly fewest mistakes seem to lead to success for the governing parties. Legislation is a hot spot in this respect, but preliminary findings show that the cabinet’s output will be turned down for the next two months.
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The governing party majority wants new House-rules to be passed for the last months of the parliamentary term. According to the Fidesz party members of the parliament, the most essential element of the motion is that the general rule requires six days to lapse between the tabling of a bill and the debate. Policy Agenda examined to what extent the House Rules are observed by the Parliament
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Last week László Kövér, the speaker of the Hungarian Parliament in an interview that sparked sharp controversy criticized today`s law making practice and proposed a kind of governance by decree. Policy Agenda has analyzed the work of the Parliament several times during this cycle and has got to the conclusion based on statistics that contrary to the practice of the past 20 years, a new method: governace by the parliamentary factions has been introduced by Fidesz in legislation.  Is it possible that Fidesz now want to break with the system they themselves established in legislative work?
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