1987. Különkiadvány, 1987.10.01 / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
PART II WHAT TO DEMAND 1. Constitutional Checks on Party Rule, a Sovereign National Assembly, and an Accountable Government 1.1 Enact a Lav on tbe Party The party is tbe only main political institution tbat has nőt cbanged at all since 1956-1957. Inward, as a political mass organization, tbe party is cbaracterized by utmost centralism:- The party's lower-levél organizations are under tbe tigbt control of its higher-level organizations, and the latter are independent of the former;- The Central and régiónál governing bodies simply inform the membership of their resolutions; the memberBhip's opinion filters upvard only through reports on party morálé;- Contact betveen party locals is established exclusively by the governing bodies;- It is prohibited and punishable to openly criticize party resolutions or to advocate the vievs of dissenting groups;- Actual pover Í6 concentrated in the hands of the apparatuses, and the role of the elected bodies is insignificant;- The governing bodies are chosen from above, and there are no establiBhed procedures fór removing the generál secretary. Outvard, as an organization exercising executive povers, the party's characteristic is unalterably that it is nőt integrated intő the State'6 legal system:- It is unclear vhicb governing bodies of the party exercise executive povers, vhat instructions they may issue, and to vhom;- It is unclear hov the party's executive povers relate to the National Assembly's and the government's spheres of authority;- The lavs that are in force are nőt binding on the party; n iZ ♦
