With 139 votes in favor and 6 against, Parliament passed the 17th amendment to the constitution, allowing Tamás Sulyok, the current President of the Republic, to be removed. 54 Members of Parliament abstained from voting.
The main goal of the constitutional change is to remove the current president while also creating a precedent that would allow for future removals of this kind. Sulyok’s term will expire on the day following the amendment’s implementation, and Parliament will then choose a head of state to serve for up to five years until the new constitution takes effect.
Prime Minister Páv Magyar stated that it would be a betrayal of the Hungarian people to ignore the Fidesz-drafted constitution, which he referred to as “the founding document of the Hungarian Cosa Nostra built by Fidesz–KDNP, in his statement prior to the formal agenda’s commencement. Additionally, he noted that no inquiry was conducted into the hundreds of billions that vanished from the central bank, MNB, throughout P. Polt’s tenure as top prosecutor. In his words, Polt was equally uninterested in that as he was in upholding the constitution, which is what he ought to be doing as the president of the Constitutional Court.
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