#constitutional-change

#constitutional-change

Hungary's parliament voted in favor of strengthening the president's position in future, a few months before parliamentary elections where longstanding Prime Minister Viktor Orban faces the biggest challenge to his stranglehold on national politics in years. Conservative opposition leader Peter Magyar and his TISZA party currently have a roughly 10-point lead in opinion polls, with a vote likely in April 2026. Hungary's parliament voted 134 in favor of the bill, with 49 votes against and two abstentions, meeting the two-thirds majority needed for the constitutional change.

Guinea's military government leader, Mamady Doumbouya, has officially entered the presidential race, submitting his candidacy for the December 28 elections, aimed at restoring constitutional order following the general's 2021 coup. Doumbouya arrived at the West African country's Supreme Court in an armoured vehicle on Monday to formally hand in his candidacy, surrounded by special forces. He left without giving a statement.

One of the Constitution's founding purposes was to prevent change. But another was to allow for change without violence. Amendment is a constitution's mechanism for the prevention of insurrection-the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition-so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation-­that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten.

Lawmakers in Cambodia have amended the country's constitution to allow legislation that would see citizenship stripped from those deemed to have colluded with foreign powers.

The recent protests in Togo, labeled a "constitutional coup," have sparked unrest with calls for action against President Gnassingbe's extended rule and rising prices.