On Monday 30 March, the Hungarian parliament approved sweeping emergency powers for the government, in its response to the Coronavirus. With no end in sight, no checks and balances and vague legal terminology, the Coronavirus-bill puts Hungary's democracy at an enormous risk.

In this interview series, we take a closer look at how the measures to halt the spread of the Coronavirus are impacting our democracies around the world in different ways, good and bad. Today we are talking about the situation in Hungary with Professor Zoltán Tibor Pállinger of the Andrássy University, who specializes in Political theory and European democracy, and Csaba Madarász an expert in e-democracy and an activist.

Read the interview here: www.democracy.community/stories/orbans-reach-unlimited-power

Democracy in times of Corona: Orbán's reach for unlimited powers

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