A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
3.6 billion Ft to run an office that investigates journalists.
The Sovereignty Protection Office's operating budget — premises, IT, external procurement, and research contracts — funds a body whose mandate is to examine lawful civic and media activity by reference to its funding sources.
Roughly 870 Ft per taxpayer per year on non-payroll running costs alone — offices, systems, and service contracts for a body that maps which organisations receive foreign support and what political effect the state judges them to have.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: an office producing reports on domestic civil-society groups and journalists. The unseen: every wage-earner whose tax funds the investigation of other citizens exercising rights the same legal order formally protects — association, expression, the private life of their correspondents.
Ellenvetés
"But foreign-funded interference in elections is a real threat — surely the state needs some body to monitor it."
Válasz
Election integrity already has guardians: the National Election Commission, the courts, and the Criminal Code's provisions on electoral offences. What is different here is the target — lawful association and journalism, examined not for illegality but for funding source and presumed political effect. That investigation is directed at the exercise of rights, not at their violation.
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Az elemző értékelése
Dologi kiadások
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
This is the largest single line in the chapter — larger than the personnel envelope itself — and funds the Office's non-payroll operating costs: premises, utilities, IT systems, services, the operation of the statutory research institute through which the Office conducts comparative legal analysis, conferences, and external procurement. Severance-with-overlap protects payroll, not the operating envelope. Office leases, supplier contracts, and IT subscriptions are counterparty contracts whose rights are honoured by contract run-off, not by employee transition; they do not justify a continuing budget line once the institution is wound down. The dologi line therefore reaches zero in the first budget cycle. The visible effect — an institution stops procuring premises and services — is the intended effect; the unseen alternative use of the 3,582.6 millió Ft is its return to the taxpayers who funded it, or its redeployment to a rights-protection function that survives the framework's test.
Átállási mechanizmus
Eliminate in the first budget cycle. In-flight supplier and lease contracts run to their contractual break points and are not renewed; this is a contract-run-off cost measured in months, not a continuing programme. No new procurement is authorised.
Érintett csoportok
The Office's landlords, IT and service suppliers, and external contractors, each of whom is a counterparty with contractual rights that run-off honours. No citizen's life plan is tied to the continuation of this operating budget.
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