The Council of Europe has sharply criticised the latest set of changes to Hungary’s constitution, describing them as “the result of an instrumental view of the constitution as a political means of the governmental majority”.
In an opinion issued on Friday (14 June), the Council’s constitutional experts in the Venice Commission said that the changes – the fourth set of amendments since 2012 – were “a sign of the abolition of the essential difference between constitution-making and ordinary politics”.
Hungary’s centre-right government, which came to power in 2010, has a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling it to change the constitution at will.
The Venice Commission drafted its opinion at the request of the Council of Europe’s secretary-general and Hungary, and at this point there are no plans for a follow-up opinion.
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