Democracy still alive in Hungary

The judgement demonstrates that the rule of law still functions in Hungary, writes the state-run liberal daily Wiener Zeitung, praising above all the courage of the president of the Constitutional Court Peter Paczolay: "One can't just view the court's decision as a last twitch of a constitutional state that is in its death throes. Rather the judges, first and foremost Paczolay, have shown that they take their independence seriously and plan to go on doing so, especially with their express criticism of the Orbán government's modus operandi, which has any laws it wants pushed through parliament. For Hungarians, especially those who have unceasingly protested for political change in the past months - at times more than 100,000 people - it can only come as an incentive not to give up hope for democracy prematurely."

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