Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar, based on a survey conducted on the government’s website, claims that the majority of the population in Hungary supports limiting the term of office of a member of parliament to 12 years.
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A survey is being conducted on the government’s website, which will end at midnight on Saturday.
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Citizens are invited to send a letter to the government’s post office and express their opinion on the 17th amendment to the Hungarian constitution. In it, the ruling Tisa party proposes to dismiss President Tamas Shujok, limit parliamentary terms to 12 years, and strengthen anti-corruption measures and increase the independence of the courts.
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“95% of the 10,000 comments on the 17th amendment to the constitution support the limitation of the term of office of deputies,” Magyar wrote on Facebook.
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Hungarian experts, by analogy with the Orban law banning holding the post of prime minister for more than eight years, call it the Fidesz bill, since it will not allow many deputies from the party of former Prime Minister Viktor Orban to run in the next cycle.
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Currently, there are no restrictions on the length of time in office of a member of the Hungarian Parliament. For example, Orban and some of his party members have been members of parliament for 36 years since 1990.
