ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anna Unger

Anna Unger holds a PhD in Political Science from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the ELTE Faculty of Social Science, Department of Human Rights and Politics. Her research focuses on the history and politics of direct democracy in Hungary. Her main research interest is the relationship between democracy and the rights of political participation, namely, how the institutional provisions of elections and popular votes strengthen or distort democracy.

POSTS BY Anna Unger

16 December 2021

Anna Unger

Chekhov’s Gun

On 9 November, the Fidesz-majority in the parliament passed an amendment on the registration of permanent addresses in Hungary, which allows to register a permanent address without actually living there. In addition, creating a fictional address will no longer be a punishable crime, as the parliament also modified the Penal Code by deleting this specific case from the provisions of document falsification. This legislative step opens the floodgates of voter tourism for the Spring parliamentary elections creating legal but unfair and undemocratic possibilities for winning the most competitive Single Member Districts. Continue reading >>

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