Amendment No. 9 | Doc. 13806 | 23 June 2015

Situation in Hungary following the adoption of Assembly Resolution 1941 (2013)

Signatories: Mr Gábor HARANGOZÓ, Hungary, SOC ; Ms Doris BARNETT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Andreas GROSS, Switzerland, SOC ; Mr Jonas GUNNARSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Ms Monica HAIDER, Sweden, SOC ; Ms Eva-Lena JANSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Ms Kerstin LUNDGREN, Sweden, ALDE ; Mr Attila MESTERHÁZY, Hungary, SOC ; Ms Carina OHLSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Ms Mechthild RAWERT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, Austria, SOC ; Mr Andreas SCHIEDER, Austria, SOC ; Mr Frithjof SCHMIDT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Frank SCHWABE, Germany, SOC

Origin - 2015 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 2.2, replace the sentence "The opposition parties, however, claim that the situation is still not fair." with the following sentences:

"However, in practice, the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission established in 2014 that a number of key amendments negatively affected the electoral process, including the removal of important checks and balances. Despite the question marks raised by the Venice Commission and the ODIHR, the so-called "compensation formula" has also been kept, which has resulted in an additional six seats being allocated to the government parties, ensuring a two-thirds majority in the parliament."

Explanatory note

The Assembly should primarily stick to the facts by highlighting the main findings of the OSCE/ODIHR's election observers. Provision of the Election Act that increases considerably the disproportionality in results, remained unchanged and resulted in an extra 6 seats in the Parliament for the government parties, ensuring a two-thirds qualified majority with much less than 50% of the vote.