nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190517-144121-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190501s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190517-144121-0 doi eng 342 23 Kazai, Viktor Z. Author aut Administrative Judicial Reform in Hungary: Who Gives a Fig about Parliamentary Process? Kazai, Viktor Z. Verfassungsblog 2019-05-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the past few months, the Fidesz government has been working on the reform of the administrative judiciary at full speed. The Constitutional Court recently had the opportunity to slow down the process of undermining judicial independence by invalidating the reform legislative act on the basis of procedural irregularities. Even though the law had been adopted as a result of a chaotic parliamentary vote, the justices did not find a violation of the Fundamental Law. The outcome is not surprising, as the Court cannot be accused of exercising a particularly strong control over the parliamentary legislative process in general. What is puzzling, however, is the massive amount of hypocrisy manifested in the reasoning. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Hungarian Constitutional Court judicial independence Opposition rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/administrative-judicial-reform-in-hungary-who-gives-a-fig-about-parliamentary-process/ raw object