– Allow civil society to operate freely and independently.
– Broaden incentives for private and corporate donations to NGOs.
– Require meaningful input from an inclusive sprectrum of civil society and the business community in public policy development and implementation, including on human rights, equality, and transparency in government.
– Ensure unbiased and transparent functioning of National Cooperation Fund with nonpartisan board and clear guidelines for grants and evaluations.
Inclusiveness – give opposition and other non-Fidesz loyalists a role in public policy (enhances checks and balances):
– Require oversight bodies to be made up of independent subject matter experts rather than political nominees, and that a certain number of slots be reserved for appointment by opposition.
– Constitutional Court appointment process should revert to pre-2010 ad hoc committee requiring agreement of two-thirds of the parties.
– Implement clearly defined and transparent procedures requiring issues of public interest to be addressed through meaningful consultation and input from all relevant experts and stakeholders.
– Legislative process: Build in hearings, debates, meaningful consultations with subject experts and civil society, and opportunities for amendments.
– Pass law that ensures long-term economic commitments and other matters of public interest are decided with transparency, substantive public input, and realistic opportunity and sufficient time for open debate and feedback.
Media:
– Rescind advertising tax, which is discriminatory and market-distorting.
– Require that state advertising budget be distributed evenly across major media outlets rather than to outlets aligned with the government party.
– Require all-party representation on media council and shorten terms.
– Amend legislation on criminal penalties for libel, including to rescind all criminal penalties for defamation and make it a civil matter.
– Remove media council's ability to levy fines and penalties for unbalanced coverage, which gives media council excessive control over content.
– Remove regulations that allow state broadcasters to run campaigneads but oblige commercial media to run ads for free.
– Incentivize diversity in ownership and pluralism of views in media.
– De-consolidate management and funding of public media and shield public media outlets from political pressure on content, to encourage independence.
– Ensure the political independence of the media council.
Elections:
– Implement all OSCE/ODIHR election recommendation, including: Amend law to ensure election commissions enjoy broad political consensus.
– Put in place safeguards to ensure a clear separation between the state and party. „Campaign finance”.
– Courts and administrative rules
– Rescind law that civil servants can be dismissed without justification.
– Strictly enforce prohibitions of political pressupure of influence on judges.
Constitution:
– Reinstate the right of Constitutional Court to rule on substantive constitutionality of proposed amendments to the Fundamental Law.
– Reinstate the right of Constitutional Court to use jurisprudence from 1990-2011 as case law.
– Move appropriate matters from cardinal laws into regular statutes.