The Hungarian Parliament adopted on Monday a constitutional amendment specifically designed to end the mandate of President Tamas Sulyok, referred to as a “puppet” of Viktor Orban by Prime Minister Peter Magyar, reports France Presse, quoted by Agerpres.
The deputies adopted the amendment with 139 votes in favor and 6 against, during a vote boycotted by Viktor Orban’s nationalist Fidesz party, defeated in the legislative elections in April, after 16 years in power.
The measure is part of the new prime minister’s efforts to dismantle the last bastions of Orban’s power, a task for which he received a solid mandate from the voters. The Hungarian president has limited prerogatives – he can block laws by veto or request their revision -, but remains a political figure with symbolic weight.
Magyar’s party, Tisza, holds a supermajority in parliament, which allows it to amend the constitution and annul the changes made by Orban, which it claims have undermined democracy.
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