The Hungarian Tisza party is proposing a constitutional amendment that would limit the prime minister’s term of office to eight years. He would thus exclude Viktor Orbán from further working in office.
Hungary’s ruling Tisza party submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament on Wednesday evening that would allow prime ministers to serve for a maximum of eight years. With reference to several Hungarian media, the correspondent of TASR in Budapest informs about it.
“The Prime Minister is elected by the National Assembly on the proposal of the President of the Republic. No one can be elected Prime Minister who has held the office of Prime Minister for eight years, including interruptions. When calculating this eight-year period, the term of office of the Prime Minister since May 2, 1990 is taken into account,” reads the proposal according to the nepszava.hu server.
New limit for Prime Ministers
It follows from the proposal that ex-prime minister Viktor Orbán would no longer be able to hold this position again. The text of the document, marked as T/51, was signed by MP Márton Melléthei-Barna and Chairman of the Committee for Justice and Constitutional Affairs of the National Assembly István Hantosi.
In addition, the Tisza party wants to abolish the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty and the foundations established by Orbán’s Fidesz party, which were behind the functioning of universities, through a constitutional amendment.
