On Tuesday, a Socialist lawmaker was prevented from submitting a referendum initiative on the Sunday shop closure law on time because the entrance to the National Election office was blocked by 15-20 bulked up men with shaved heads.

While the MP was held up, a private individual was able to submit a question on the same subject. National security committee head Zsolt Molnár said this incident constituted a national security risk and he urged the interior minister, Sándor Pintér, to investigate whether a crime had been committed.

Molnár said the “thugs did more than just to prevent a citizen from exercising his political right, they waged an attack on Hungarian democracy”.

Molnár said some envisioned that the “era of private armies” was approaching, when political conflicts are settled in illegal ways, by physical force.

This would mean the fall of a democratic, constitutional order, he said.

The referendum question was concerning a ban on Sunday shopping, which the Socialists would like to have removed through the binding force of a popular vote.

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