Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar and Minister of Justice Márta Görögová met with President Tamás Sulyok on Monday morning at Sándor’s Palacewho, after winning the parliamentary elections in April, the prime minister repeatedly called on him to voluntarily resign from his post by May 31. After the meeting, according to the 24.hu server, the Prime Minister said that the Republic of Hungary does not belong to Tamás Sulyok, does not belong to one party and does not even belong to a political regime, informs the TASR correspondent in Budapest.
- Péter Magyar personally called on President Tamás Sulyok to voluntarily resign.
- Tamás Sulyok publicly refused to resign and plans to carry out the entire mandate.
- Protesters in front of the presidential palace tried to disrupt Prime Minister Magyar’s speech.
- The Fidesz party called Prime Minister Magyar’s actions blackmail and dictatorship.
- Tamás Sulyok was elected president by the parliament with the votes of the deputies of the Fidesz KDNP bloc.
Several protesters gathered in the square in front of the president’s residence, trying to disrupt the prime minister’s speech. On Sunday (May 31), Sulyok announced in a video on the Facebook social network that he will not give up his position and will continue to exercise his powers.
In the past, Magyar called Sulyok a “puppet” and a “remnant of the Orbán regime.” In mid-May, the President clearly declared that he would not resign from his post and that he intended to fulfill his mandate and oath.
Fidesz issued a statement on Sunday calling Magyar’s actions “open blackmail” and “dictatorship” and siding with President Sulyok, whom they say Magyar is attacking unconstitutionally. According to Fidesz, the Prime Minister “continues to follow the path of dictatorship and illegal ultimatums”. According to the party, the term of office of public officials is not determined by the prime minister, and therefore the term set by the prime minister is invalid.
The then President of the Constitutional Court, Sulyok, was elected President by the National Assembly on February 26, 2024. In a secret vote, it was decided by the votes of the Fidesz-KDNP bloc deputies. 134 deputies voted for, five were against. Parliamentary factions Democratic Coalition (DK), Jobbik, Momentum, Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and Párbeszéd (Dialog) left the meeting hall before the vote.
Sulyok’s predecessor Katalin Nováková she resigned from her post after less than two years in office on February 10, 2024 in connection with the amnesty case for Endre K., who was convicted of concealing sexual abuse in a children’s home in Bicske.
