Hungary will amend the constitution to oust President Tamas Sulyok, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said after meeting the head of state in Budapest.
Magyar spoke on Monday, hours after a May 31 deadline he set for Sulyok’s resignation expired. The president on Sunday had ruled out resigning, citing what he described as his allegiance to local and European constitutional norms that required him to stay on.
Magyar won a landslide election on April 12 on a vow to dismantle Viktor Orban’s increasingly authoritarian and corrupt system. During the campaign, he pledged to oust Orban loyalists, including Sulyok, top justices and prosecutors, whom he had accused of having failed to protect the country’s democracy.
Magyar’s Tisza party won a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the ballot, allowing it to change the constitution at will. The prime minister said he would brief his lawmakers about how the government intended to proceed with the removal of the president.
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