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New Law Gives Sweeping Powers To Hungary's Orban, Alarming Rights Advocates : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
Kim Lane Scheppele, a Hungary expert at Princeton University, says Orban has stretched the law like no one else.

"Bolsanaro in Brazil, Kaczynski in Poland ... Trump in the United States, all of them have thought about using emergency powers. But no one has yet gone as far as Orban to really shut down democracy as anybody knew it in Hungary before," she says.

Orban is popular with Hungarians, but even supporters of his Fidesz party are concerned about the country's health care system, says Gabor Gyori, a political analyst with Policy Solutions, a left-leaning think tank in Budapest.

"The irony is that the government is giving itself extreme powers," he says, but "it is not taking any extreme measures" when it comes to combating the coronavirus.
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Balazs Csekö on Twitter: "Hungarian Parliament passes bill that gives PM Orbán unlimited power & proclaims:
- State of emergency w/o time limit
- Rule by decree
- Parliament suspended
- No elections
- Spreading fake news + rumors: up to 5 yrs in prison
- Leaving quarantine: up to 8 yrs in prison
#COVID19 https://t.co/5ScZCbF4yv" / Twitter
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Kristaps Kaupe on Twitter: "This is actually more harsh than Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933. Hitler at least formally didn't suspend parliament and didn't cancel elections. This gives Orban similar powers as had Ulmanis in Latvia after coup d'etat in 1934 (but he used military force, not parliament vote). https://t.co/Ux9WlbjaL0" / Twitter

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