Half-Hearted Promises, Disappointing Delivery

An Assessment of the Hungarian Government’s New Measures to Protect the EU Budget and Related Recommendations

FIDESZ TO HOLLOW OUT THE HUNGARIAN LAW ON MPS’ ASSET DECLARATION

Although the Hungarian law on MPs’ asset declaration has long been criticized by many for inefficiency, the Hungarian public has often been left stunned by the wealth of the political elite revealed in asset declarations. Now, Fidesz MPs submitted a bill that plans to disperse the last safeguards that serves some transparency of the wealth of politicians.

ELECTION CAMPAIGN: THE HUNGARIAN STATE IN ACTION

After a 50-day official campaign period, general elections were held in Hungary on 3 April, and FIDESZ, in government since 2010, won a supermajority for the fourth time. The election results are hardly surprising given the government's gravity in campaigning. 

Orban’s Fidesz has likely overspent in Hungary’s election campaign

Fidesz itself seems to have violated the spending cap of HUF 1.177 bn, just with its billboard ads worth HUF 1.4 bn. Altogether pro-government forces have spent HUF 3bn on outdoor ads in March.