Egon Dienes-Oehm

Egon Dienes-Oehm was elected to the Constitutional Court in 2011 as the KDNP's nominee, after Fidesz-KDNP unilaterally changed the nomination rules in 2010 to eliminate the previous practice of seeking cross-party consensus. A 2015 joint analysis by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Eötvös Károly Institute and TASZ, examining 23 significant Constitutional Court decisions from 2011-2014, found that Dienes-Oehm "even before the new judges gained a majority, made decisions that were almost exclusively aligned with the government's presumed interest." According to the report, this pattern intensified after 2013 once the single-party-appointed majority took hold, ruling in the government's favor in 10 of 13 examined cases, in contrast to the more power-limiting record of judges appointed under the earlier consensus system. The findings come from a professional analysis by civil-rights organizations; no court has found Dienes-Oehm guilty of any crime.