🔶 Hungary’s president paves the way for his own removal

A newly established, “Tisza”-supporting party has a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian parliament, and therefore can amend the constitution. The party passed its seventeenth constitutional amendment last Monday, which also included the removal of Tamás Sulyok, the president.

According to Germany’s Channel One, the allegation against Sulyok is that he has been “a puppet in a puppet-show” and that, in a “corrupt authoritarian system,” he participated in the former system and has always signed all laws for Viktor Orbán without question.

After the parliament approved Sulyok’s removal last Monday, the president had until Saturday, July 18 (July 27), to sign the law; but for a long time it appeared that he intended to refuse to sign it.