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"They removed the president without any justification, although he had been democratically elected".
Zsolt Hegedűs argued that acting within the law was not enough for a head of state.
Fidesz parliamentary group leader Gergely Gulyás said the move marked the end of constitutional democracy.
Sulyok, elected in 2024 by a Fidesz-dominated parliament, has refused to resign and has referred the proposal to the Council of Europe's Venice Commission.
"We can already feel a strong wind of change across Hungary," von der Leyen said after meeting Magyar.
In their statement they recall events that took place in Poland in December 2023, days after the present centre-left government led by Tusk took power.
The sudden removal of M1 and Kossuth from the air, framed by Budapest as ending Orbán-era propaganda, echoes Donald Tusk's rapid overhaul of Poland's state media…
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Hungary, both long-standing critics of Orbán, questioned the process.
The Magyar government also wants to remove the sitting President and head of the Constitutional Court.
The body held wide powers to scrutinise organisations, media outlets and individuals suspected of serving foreign interests.
Hungary's largest conservative foundation faces losing its independence under Péter Magyar's reforms, prompting its chairman to step down in protest.
The controversy follows Péter Magyar’s demand earlier this year that Sulyok resign, after the president refused to step down.
"Today we have taken a big step towards a functional and humane Hungary," Péter Magyar said.
The departure of Viktor Orbán has removed the bloc's loudest sceptic, though Bulgaria's new premier may prove a quieter replacement as leaders open budget talks.
It applies retroactively to all tenures held after May 2, 1990.
Such a stance was one of the main reasons that his predecessor, Viktor Orbán, was in loggerheads with the EU.
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said his government would amend the constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok.
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok rejects Magyar's demand to resign by end of May.
Orbán himself never moved into an official residence after returning to power in 2010, continuing to live with his family in his house on Cinege Street in Buda.
Péter Magyar's pick for justice minister, Márton Melléthei-Barna, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post.
Italian Prime Minister and Hungary’s newly elected Prime Minister met in what analysts see as an effort to preserve strong bilateral ties following Viktor Orbán’s…
Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar has stated that his country would be legally obliged to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters…
The new Prime Minister-elect of Hungary, Péter Magyar, plans to shut down the news service of state-funded media, labelling them liars and propagandists, and has…
A lot will be written about the end of the era of Orbán in Hungary, so allow me to add a bit of a meta perspective.
CEGLED – The small, regional town’s Louis Kossuth Square was an ideal place to hear Tisza leader Péter Magyar for the first time.
It’s funny to read how the European left-wing media twist words.
The release of recordings of conversations between Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov was intended to be the…
Hungary is probably the only country in Europe where, just over a month before the elections on April 12, the picture might be so unclear, so foggy.
The leader of Hungary’s main opposition party Tisza has promised that if elected into power he would send two Polish politicians granted asylum in his country…
Amidst the spat Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is having with the EU bubble, there is another, even more bitter fight unfolding, between Orbán and his former…
