Hungary's nationalist government passed a law Monday granting sweeping emergency powers that Prime Minister Viktor Orban says are necessary to fight the coronavirus. But critics insist he's using the pandemic to grab power.
The nationalist government in Hungary passed a law Monday granting sweeping emergency powers that Prime Minister Viktor Orban says are necessary to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
During Monday's vote, he said:"When this emergency ends, we will give back all powers, without exception." "Bolsanaro in Brazil, Kaczynski in Poland...Trump in the United States, all of them have thought about using emergency powers. But no one has yet gone as far as Orban to really shut down democracy as anybody knew it in Hungary before," she says.
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