Amendment No. 7 | Doc. 13229 | 24 June 2013

Request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary

Signatories: Mr Kimmo SASI, Finland, EPP/CD ; Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Viorel Riceard BADEA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr David DAVIES, United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Erich Georg FRITZ, Germany, EPP/CD ; Ms Pelin GÜNDEŞ BAKIR, Turkey, EDG ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Gabino PUCHE, Spain, EPP/CD

Origin - 2013 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 3 with the following paragraph:

"The Assembly notes that the new Hungarian Parliament, for the first time in the history of free and democratic Hungary, amended the former one-party Constitution into a new and modern Fundamental Law through a democratic procedure, after intensive debates in the Parliament and with contributions by Hungarian civil society."

Explanatory note

The former Hungarian Constitution was adopted by a one party parliament in 1949. In 1989, the Constitution was amended by the last, not freely elected, communist parliament. It is a matter of fact that for the first time in history, Hungary has a written Constitution which was adopted by a freely elected Parliament.