nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180515-100750 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180514s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180515-100750 doi eng 342 23 Fleck, Zoltán Author aut Judges under Attack in Hungary Fleck, Zoltán Verfassungsblog 2018-05-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Judges seem to irritate the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who likes to talk officially about “the judicial state” and irresponsible judges. Despite many problems with judicial autonomy and practice, judicial independence itself has remained relatively intact from overt political influence so far. More precisely: the governing party and its friends could not completely rely on the courts to get favorable decisions. For example, governmental bodies have regularly lost cases initiated by civil legal organizations for the release of public information. That, however, might change after Orbán’s latest electoral victory. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/judges-under-attack-in-hungary/ raw object