After winning the constitutional majority, Péter Magyar tightens his grip and calls on Fidesz nominees, including President Tamás Sulyok, to leave. If they do not resign by the end of May, he announced their dismissal.
Future Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, whose Tisza party won a two-thirds majority in April’s parliamentary elections, called on Fidesz’s nominees, including President Tamás Sulyok, to resign by the end of May on Platform X on Tuesday. The correspondent of TASR in Budapest informs about it.
- Future Prime Minister Péter Magyar called on Fidesz nominees, including the president, to resign.
- Magyar set a deadline of May 31 for voluntary resignations.
- He warned that after May 31 he will remove them from their positions.
- He pointed to the mandate of political transformation received from millions of Hungarian voters.
- The Tisza party won 141 out of 199 seats, a constitutional two-thirds majority.
“Until May 31, Orbán’s puppets can voluntarily resign from their positions. This concerns the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia (Supreme Court), the President of the National Judicial Office, the President of the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor General. On April 12, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not voluntarily resign by May 31, then – based on the mandate that we received from millions of Hungarians – we will remove them from their positions,” Magyar wrote.
Call after resignation
The head of state is elected in Hungary by the parliament, Sulyok became the Hungarian president on March 5, 2024 after being elected to the position by the parliament with a two-thirds majority of the Fidesz-KDNP government bloc.
Less than a week after the parliamentary elections in Hungary, they announced the official final results. According to them, the previous conservative opposition party Tisza, led by Péter Magyar, won 141 of the 199 seats in the legislature, which is eight more than the constitutional two-thirds majority.
