BF. whereas the Second Amendment to the Fundamental Law enshrining the requirement of voter registration was tabled as an individual member’s bill on the same day as the draft law on the election procedure, namely on 18 September 2012, and was adopted on 29 October 2012,

– having regard to the Fourth Amendment of the Fundamental Law, tabled on 8 February 2013 in the form of an individual member's bill and adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on 11 March 2013, which, among other provisions, integrates into the text of the Fundamental Law the Transitional Provisions (with some exceptions including the provision requiring voter registration) annulled by the Constitutional Court of Hungary on 28 December 2012 on procedural grounds (Decision No 45/2012), and remaining provisions of a genuinely transitional nature in this document,

BE. whereas the Second Amendment to the Fundamental Law enshrining the requirement of voter registration was tabled as an individual member’s bill on the same day as the draft law on the election procedure, namely on 18 September 2012, and was adopted on 29 October 2012,

The government accommodates everything that I wrote in the original private member's bill, but in the last two pages it ruined the whole damn thing.

It is good that issues such as the arrest of political protesters, the electoral law and the bill on political parties have been debated in the long-awaited gathering of the national assembly in Eritrea but we are, of course, sorry that no decision was taken on when detainees will be referred to the courts or released and that the formation of political parties has again been put on hold.

I am also grateful to past members of the committee and of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism who in previous parliamentary sessions conducted hearings on my private member's bill, the precursor of this act and the government's original bill.