BackThe Urgent Questions (1994-2022) dataset contains information about each urgent parliamentary questions ("azonnali kérdés") introduced since 1994. The brief list of sources is from the official website of the Hungarian National Assembly (http://parlament.hu/).
Urgent questions are introduced by the leaders of parliamentary groups (but are presented by MPs). MPs have 60 minutes per week to ask urgent questions, and each parliamentary group has right to present at least one urgent question a week. Urgent questions can be introduced until 60 minutes before the beginning of the session. Introducers must identify the topic of their urgent question, but a written submission is not required. In the debate of an urgent question ministers also have the right to reply to the MP's reply.
The database includes the following main variables: the title of the urgent question (complete_title), the name of the representative who gives the initial oral presentation of the urgent question in parliament (introducer), the name of the minister addressed by the urgent question (respondent), the date when the urgent question was introduced (date_introduced) and the policy topic of the urgent question (majortopic and subtopic).
Database: Downloadable CSV; Online version
Codebook: Downloadable PDF; Online version
Sources: The list and text of urgent questions (1994-2014)