Hungary Could Vote to Oust President as Early as Next Week
The proposal would end Sulyok’s mandate within 30 days and add term limits for lawmakers, a new asset-recovery office and other constitutional changes.
- On Saturday, Prime Minister Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party filed the 17th amendment to the Fundamental Law, which would terminate President Tamás Sulyok's mandate the day after it enters into force.
- Magyar, who ended Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power after an April landslide election victory, has repeatedly called for removing the president, whom he labels "Orbán's puppet."
- The 17th amendment introduces 12-year term limits for MPs, sets a 70-year age limit for Constitutional Court justices, and replaces the Parliamentary Guard with a unified law enforcement administration.
- On Sunday, President Sulyok rejected calls to resign, stating the move threatens rule-of-law principles, while the opposition Fidesz Party organized a demonstration for Thursday in support of the president.
- With the governing Tisza holding a supermajority, parliamentary sources indicate the vote could occur as early as next week, though Sulyok has referred the proposal to the Council of Europe's Venice Commission for examination.
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The Hungarian Parliament is considering from Tuesday 7 July a package of constitutional amendments providing for the removal of President Tamas Sulyok, close to former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. A "strong" method, which raises the fears of several NGOs and advocates of the rule of law.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Péter Magyar's proposal to amend the constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office has triggered a major political crisis.
Unaccustomed to his new position as leader of the opposition, the Fidesz party, former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (and originally also the current one, Péter Magyar), called protests after Magyar presented a constitutional amendment to remove President Tamás Sulyok – one of the ‘men of Orbán's hand and maximum exponent of the powerful machine that the former Hungarian leader mounted over almost two decades in power. The protests are scheduled f…
Hungary's opposition Fidesz party has called for a demonstration on Thursday, after Prime Minister Péter Magyar tabled a constitutional amendment to dismiss the country's president, Tamás Sulyok.Magjari, who won April's election by an overwhelming majority, ending 16 years in power of Viv. Orbán has repeatedly demanded the dismissal of the official appointed by his predecessor, whom he calls “Orbán's doll”, transmits the Telegraph.Magjari's amen…
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ussanews.comPM Magyar: ‘With this, the incumbent President’s tenure is ending’
Prime Minister Péter Magyar of Hungary has shared the outline of the planned 17th amendment of the Fundamental Law of Hungary in a post to his Facebook page. The written breakdown of the amendment was included in the caption of his video message about the proposed constitutional changes. ‘With this amendment, the tenure of the incumbent President of the Republic [Tamás Sulyok] is ending,’ the prime minister stated in the video. ‘The reconstructi…
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