A Hungria - de novo autoritária

As notícias que nos chegam da Hungria não são más, são péssimas. Dezenas de milhares de pessoas desfilaram anteontem nas ruas de Budapeste, em protesto contra a nova Constituição que entrou agora em vigor e que é acusada de condicionar liberdades fundamentais e de pôr em causa a independência de instituições como o Banco Central e o Tribunal Constitucional.

O diploma tem como subtítulo do preâmbulo a frase «Deus abençoe os húngaros», reconhece o papel do cristianismo na preservação da identidade nacional, defende que o feto deve ser protegido desde a concepção e não admite o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo.

Além disso, assiste-se, um pouco por toda a parte, ao crescimento de um culto generalizado de nacionalismo que vai, por exemplo, até ao ponto de estarem previstos impostos municipais para quem tenha cães de raça não húngara!

Entretanto, sublinhe-se a importância de uma iniciativa notável de treze antigos dissidentes do regime comunista, alguns deles ironicamente compagnons de route de Viktor Orbán, que acabam de lançar um longo apelo que merece ser lido.

The decline of democracy – the rise of dictatorship
New Year’s message sent by former Hungarian political dissidents
2 January 2012, Budapest

The undersigned, participants of the erstwhile human rights and democracy movement that opposed the one-party communist regime in the 1970s and 1980s, believe that the Hungarian society is not only the victim of the current economic crisis, but also the victim of its own government. The present government has snatched the democratic political tools from the hands of those who could use these tools to ameliorate their predicament. While chanting empty patriotic slogans, the government behaves in a most unpatriotic way by reducing its citizens to inactivity and impotence.

The constitutional system of Hungary has also sunk into a critical situation. As of the 1st of January 2012, the new constitution of Hungary along with several fundamental laws came into force. Viktor Orbán’s government is intent on destroying the democratic rule of law, removing checks and balances, and pursuing a systematic policy of closing autonomous institutions, including those of civil society, with the potential to criticise its omnipotence. Never since the regime change of 1989 when communist dictatorship was crushed has there been such an intense concentration of power in the region as in present-day Hungary. (…)

Europe is at a crossroads too. Hungary is a sad example of what may happen wherever there is a concentration of crisis tendencies, aggravated by attempts to resolve problems caused by an economic and social crisis with authoritarian means and a policy of nationalistic isolation. Instead of prosperity and stability, such a policy can only lead to suppression, conflict and turmoil. The desperate situation of present-day Hungary should be a warning for all of us: if Europe is prepared to help Hungary, it will also help itself.

Na íntegra aqui.

Ler:
- A Hungria também nos diz respeito

- Dérive autoritaire en Hongrie : que peut faire l'Europe?

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