The article is an attempt to answer the question of the range of changes introduced by the Hungarian Constitution, that came into force on 1st of January 2012. The Author Maciej Borski has compared the new Constitution to the previous one of the provenance going back to socialist times. Basing on the thesis, that the New Constitution has not provided any major changes into the legal system, the paper points out the provisions and regulations that were the most widely discussed both in Hungary and abroad. Taking into consideration the political context of the changes, the Author tries to explain and describe the way that passing the new Constitution became possible, as well as to name the risk arising from the constantly increasing power of the Victor Orban’s government, while further marginalizing the political opposition.
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