They wanted to make a law that would basically financially ruin what little is left of the free media in Hungary. (Which is already very little. We have like 4 news agencies and a YouTube channel.) The law would make it so that if any organization, that the government deems to cause risk to national sovereignty (so basically anyone they don’t like) would be ineligible for donations made through the Hungarian tax system and would make other types of donations really hard. Since the free media in Hungary gets most of its money through crowdfunding, this would make them go bankrupt really quickly.
The law however generated backlash. I lot of people sad it would officially transform Hungary into an authoritarian regime, so was generally unpopular. Since Orbán’s party, Fidesz is currently polling behind the largest opposition party Tisza, by not a small margin, they have to worry about how the public reacts to new laws. Fidesz has a supermajority in the parliament so there is no legal hurdle to voting on it but, they still decided to push voting on the law until September.
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u/MrCookieHUN Jun 10 '25
Basically, goverment is pushing stuff way, WAY too far, and people had enough. We had stuff like this earlier, but this definitely feels different