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The social contract

France is not the only place with protests. The Hungarians are protesting too. These protests are very different, but bring up similar questions about the nature of democracy.

I encountered the question, the one that is called a ‘scandal’ by the local media, in a Facebook post of a liberal friend.

“I am saying since 2010 that an anti-democratic, anti-republican and anti-parliamentarian legislative assembly must not be legitimated by the presence of the representatives of the democratic, republican, parliamentarian parties.
[……]
Let’s start building parallel institutions for a new historical starting point”

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