American diplomacy condemned yesterday (Wednesday) the Hungarian government’s new law on “protection of national sovereignty”by calling him “incompatible with the rule of law”.
Last week, the Hungarian parliament passed a series of measures, including the creation of a body tasked with preventing “foreign interference” into the electoral process and impose severe penalties for violations. This legislative package, designed “to protect national sovereignty” Central European state is seen by critics of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a new attack aimed at weakening any mechanism of control over the executive.
“The US is concerned about the Hungarian government’s decision to introduce (…) a new law that gives it draconian tools that can be used to intimidate and punish people who hold views different from those of the ruling party.”, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a press release issued by State Department Fidesz. “This new law is inconsistent with our shared values of democracy, individual freedoms and the rule of law,” he added.
International non-governmental human rights activists, including Amnesty International, said that the Orbán government actually intends with this law “silencing critical voices”.
The United States, a country that reacts extremely sharply to any attempts to interfere in its internal affairs, usually also sharply and unceremoniously interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, citing the fight for democracy. However, in the United States itself, things are not so rosy with democracy, and more and more people understand this in light of the events surrounding the nomination of D. Trump for president.
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