Fanni Tanács-Mandák: The Hungarian Governments in the decade of crises (2015-2024)

Fanni Tanács-Mandák ^*

• National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary

The prime minister, and thus indirectly the government, had a strong position in the Hungarian chancellor-type parliamentary system established at the time of the transition to democracy.Since the 1990s, as a result of the de facto presidentialisation, this initially stronger position has been continuously and systematically strengthened. Since the balance of power between the legislature and the executive has shifted significantly in favour of the latter.All these developments make it particularly interesting to describe the extraordinary measures taken in recent years and to assess their impact on the already modified system of separation of powers. Based on the relevant legislation, statistics and practice, the manuscript discusses and analyses how the congestion of legally and politically overlapping periods of emergency and special legal order has affected the already changed balance of power between the government and parliament, to what extent and how it has influenced the instruments used by the government for decision-making, and the dynamics of parliamentary work.