Controversy
After winning 53% of the popular vote, which translated into 68% of the seats, Fidesz embarked on an extraordinary project of passing over 200 laws and revising the constitution. The new constitution has been widely criticized by the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the United States for gathering too much power in the hands of the ruling party, Fidesz, for limiting oversight of the new constitution by the Constitutional Court, and for removing democratic checks and balances in various areas, including the ordinary judiciary, supervision of elections and the media. Hungarians have taken to the streets protesting the actions the right wing government of Viktor Orbán, who has rejected appeals from European Commission President Jose Barroso and Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn; the European Commission subsequently threatened punitive action against the Orbán government.
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