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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20260422-173322-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/winning-an-election-right-to-disobey/ Winning an Election Doesn’t Give the Right to Disobey - A Rejoinder to Constitutional Disobedience Chioreanu, Rareș-David eng 2026-04-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Barbara Zeller Hungarian democracy Illiberalism Ungarn constitutional disobedience Ungarn Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Barbara Zeller argued on this blog that the way of re-liberalizing the Hungarian democracy is disobeying its Fundamental Law. She finds constitutional disobedience not only justified, but even legally required. I disagree. Disobeying the Constitution is neither politically opportune nor legally permissible. In a democratic society it might even be counter-productive and, as such, dangerous. To overcome the biggest challenge of the incoming government – dealing with the politically packed institutions – I propose cooperation, continuance, and reform rather than disobedience.