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muriel_volestrangler

(107,098 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 05:15 PM Monday

Hungary parliament votes to remove president from office [View all]

The Hungarian parliament has voted to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office, who was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán who lost power in April after 16 years.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar's Tisza party used its two thirds majority to steamroll through the 17th amendment to the constitution, ending the term of Sulyok and the head of the Constitutional Court Péter Polt.
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Sulyok now has five days to sign the amendment - his own political death warrant - or refer it to the Constitutional Court.

If Sulyok refers it to the court, Magyar has said he will launch impeachment proceedings against him, which would suspend him from office automatically.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8r002gdevo
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