How Populism Destroys Political Representation

Szente, Zoltán (2019) How Populism Destroys Political Representation. DPCE Online, 39 (2). pp. 1609-1618. ISSN 2037-6677

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Abstract

Come il populismo distrugge la rappresentanza politica. Le riforme (anti)parlamentari in Hungheria dopo il 2010. The basic presumption of the study is that when the system of the rule of law is dismantling in Hungary, this tendency must affect also the role of the legislature. While both the organization and parliamentary procedures are regulated in a standard European way, the practice and performance of this legislature is significantly different from other national parliaments in Europe. All the changes which have been introduced since 2010, including the abolishment of the second plenary reading of legislative bills, the block vote, the technics of speeding-up parliamentary decision-making process, as well as the parliamentary practice have aimed to open the way for the unbridled and unlimited political decision-making of the Government, and to secure the power of the governing parties. This can only be explained by authoritarian trends of the political system which makes the future of Hungarian parliamentary democracy so gloomy in a situation where no European or any other supranational mechanisms are available to counterbalance or reverse the authoritarian tendencies and the decline of Parliament.

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