nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/921e251632bb685b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250617s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/921e251632bb685b doi eng 342 23 Drinóczi, Tímea Author aut Beyond Legal Restoration - Post-Formalist Constitutionalism for Democratic Reconstruction Drinóczi, Tímea Verfassungsblog 2025-06-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A recently published proposal by former Constitutional Court judge Béla Pokol suggests introducing a new emergency regime designed to defend Hungary’s illiberal system against potential re-democratization efforts by a future government. Together with international criticism of Poland’s judicial reform in its process of democratic renewal, this provokes a profound reckoning: traditional legal formalism may no longer serve the needs of constitutional recovery. It is time for a post-formalist approach to democratic reconstruction. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Formalism Hungary Poland Polen. Sa̜d Najwyższy Rule of Law Ungarn. Kúria | Budapest democracy institutional independence (DE-588)14821-0 gnd Polen. Sa̜d Najwyższy (DE-588)103611077x gnd Ungarn. Kúria | Budapest Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/hungary-constitutionalism/ raw object