August 17th, 2012

Hungarian law probed by European Court is already annulled, says international lawyer

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The European Court of Justice is examining a Hungarian piece of legislation on the retirement of judges that the country’s top court has already annulled, daily Magyar Hirlap said on Friday, citing an international lawyer.

The Luxembourg court may conclude that there has been a violation of law and rule that Hungary should remedy the situation the court deems unlawful, but cannot rule for the judges’ reappointment, Adam Gellert told the paper.

He said in connection with the appeal of more than 100 Hungarian judges at the at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that a decision there could only be expected within one or two years.

The paper said it learnt from court sources that out of the 231 judges affected by the new retirement law, 186 had already been reassigned to work after retirement, at their own request.

Hungary’s Constitutional Court axed a new law which set the retirement age of judges to the general retirement age of 62, on July 16 with retroactive effect to January 1 this year. On July 16, the court said that both the form and content of the law violated the constitutional requirement that judges be independent.

The annulled legislation lowered the retirement age of judges, prosecutors and notaries from 70 to the general retirement age of 62years, which, in effect, forced the departure of a large number of judges.

MTI (Magyar Távirati Iroda) is the Hungarian news agency.
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  • …justasking

    ‘The Luxembourg court may conclude that there has been a violation of law and rule that Hungary should remedy the situation the court deems unlawful, but cannot rule for the judges’ reappointment… a decision there could only be expected within one or two years’

    Well, I guess it worked…Fidesz ‘cleansing the Judicial System’ from any trace of ‘those leftists regime supporters’. He retracts the law, and moves on.

    Those individuals affected, can sit in limbo for the next 2 years.

  • Viking

    …justasking says:
    August 17, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Those individuals affected, can sit in limbo for the next 2 years.
    —

    Yes, as with Pussy Riot, resistance will have its price

  • wolfi

    Well we have it from Orbán’s rabid kutya in clear words:

    Whether it’s Clubradio, MSZP, LMP, whoever – every opposition must be destroyed …

  • Leto مؤدّب

    If the last 20 years have proved anything, it’s that democracy is not working. It’s great that Orban has learned Hungarians to be critical of the existing political model. He has identified what is not working in Hungary and examined what the failure is causing. The next step will be to address the root cause. Europe will probably not be amused when Fidesz will make the needed changes, but it’s the only way to get this country back on track.

    • Pete H.

      Fake post for sure.

      • Leto مؤدّب

        Can you read, rotten postcommie bastard? This is a genuine post, you rotten postcommie zombie.

    • Monica

      HS
      “Bruck argues that if they want to stay in power–and there is no question that Viktor Orbán desperately wants to–”they can escape only in the direction of dictatorship. There is no return. They must go along that route.” Bruck’s final conclusion is that this can be done only if Hungary leaves the European Union.”

  • Monica

    ”they can escape only in the direction of dictatorship….Leto the”fag”‘s dream.

    • Magyar

      Its funny when liberals and gay rights protesters use ‘fag’ as an insult.

      You still havent answered where you are from, Canadian Hungarian?

      • Monica

        Gays are okay…fags are not. Magyar and Leto are fags. I am a Budapest freedom fighter.Liberal.

        • Magyar

          You do know that fag is a derogatory word for a gay? Ahhaa

          “I am a Budapest freedom fighter.”
          AHAHAHAHAHA
          Bullshit, why do you spell your name in an English way then, eh?
          Also, you are not a “freedom fighter”, you are a disgrace.

          “Liberal.”
          That says it all.

          Well well, it looks like we have another Gyurcsány kurva on here.

          • Leto مؤدّب

            “it looks like we have another Gyurcsány kurva on here.”

            Nope, the terminus technicus is “rotten postcommie bastard” or “postcommie scum”. She may or may not be a Gyurcsány fan though.

          • Magyar

            Leto I have something for you:

            “In February 1939, Imrédy’s moderate political opponents, angered at his growing compliancy to Germany and Hungary’s right wing, presented evidence to Regent Horthy that suggested Imrédy had Jewish ancestors. When Horthy confronted Imrédy with the evidence, Imrédy could not deny the claims about his heritage and resigned the premiership on February 13, 1939.”

            Recently, you criticised Jobbik for letting go of Szegedi, however, what do you think of this? Since you claim that the Admiral had no antisemetic views, what do you think?

            PS. the second word of my Capcha required me to write “synagogues”, oh the irony! Probably Zionists infected this website to send me a message!

          • Magyar

            Leto I have something for you:

            “In February 1939, Imrédy’s moderate political opponents, angered at his growing compliancy to Germany and Hungary’s right wing, presented evidence to Regent Horthy that suggested Imrédy had J@wish ancestors. When Horthy confronted Imrédy with the evidence, Imrédy could not deny the claims about his heritage and resigned the premiership on February 13, 1939.”

            Recently, you criticised Jobbik for letting go of Szegedi, however, what do you think of this? Since you claim that the Admiral had no antisem*tic views, what do you think?

            PS. the second word of my Capcha required me to write “synagogues”, oh the irony! Probably Z*onists infected this website to send me a message!

          • Viking

            Magyar says:
            August 19, 2012 at 7:32 pm

            Leto I have something for you
            —

            That post is a re-write of what I posted on ‘magyar’, but I am not so sure that ‘magyar’ has the verbal skills to do the re-write, so I am inclined to believe it is a fake post by someone playing games

          • Magyar

            Viking, it is a real post, I just copied&pasted it from Wikipedia.

  • Monica

    Who told you fag is meant as an insult. Was a compliment. From Budapest, Hungarian, not jewish…..but disgusted by you.

  • Monica

    HS
    “Finally, I received from several sources an unpublished article of the late Péter Popper, a psychiatrist, entitled “I forgive, but I don’t forget,” apparently a quotation from Viktor Orbán. Popper recalls that way back in 1989 and 1990 he was a Fidesz supporter, but then he realized that he had bet on the wrong horse. A friend of his told him at that time: “‘Be careful, these are criminals!’ I didn’t believe him. Today I know they are. Viktor Orbán’s name became a symbol for me. The symbol of the final political depravity of a country that has been depraved for at least the last eighty years.” Harsh words. But there is a lot of truth in them.

  • Monica

    Yes…it is a “war” now. Against fascists.

    • Leto مؤدّب

      Yes, it’s a war against the postcommie scum (MSZP-ex-SZDSZ networks) indeed. You’ll be finished for good, postcommie vermin. :)

    • Anonymous

      Monica plays on her harmonica.

  • Anonymous

    Hells bells.

  • Anonymous

    VIVA CORONATION STREET!

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