The new Hungarian parliament will approve on Monday a constitutional amendment that contains a provision ending the term of the current President of Hungary, Tamas Sulyok. If he refuses to promulgate it, he will be dismissed by parliament anyway, announced Prime Minister Peter Magyar on Saturday.
„On Monday, the National Assembly will approve the 17th amendment to the Fundamental Law. The President of the republic will have five days to sign it. If he does not do so, a dismissal procedure against him could be launched” in parliament, indicated the new Hungarian Prime Minister in a Facebook post taken over by the MTI agency.
The new conservative pro-EU Prime Minister Peter Magyar has repeatedly called for the removal from office of President Tamas Sulyok and the other "puppets" of former conservative and nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
"Operation Purifying Fire" continues
Two months after taking the oath on May 9, Peter Magyar continues his offensive at a dizzying speed to achieve the "regime change" promised on the evening of his overwhelming victory in the parliamentary elections in April.
Last month he announced "Operation Purifying Fire", which includes revising the Constitution, the argument invoked being to prevent in the future a new concentration of power as it was in the Orban era.
Before the adoption of this constitutional revision, which must be preceded by a public consultation, the new parliament is called upon to vote on a 12-point amendment that includes, among other things, the dismissal of President Tamas Sulyok, elected by the previous legislature in which Orban's Fidesz party was in the majority.
Officials of the former power will be investigated
Other initiatives promoted by Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party has a comfortable two-thirds majority in parliament, focus on "anticorruption" measures, with the creation of a body called the "National Office for the Protection and Recovery of Assets," which will be able to investigate officials of the former power. In addition, Hungary will join the European EPPO prosecutor's office.
The new prime minister has also launched a spectacular attack on the public mass media, accusing them of partisanship in favor of Orban. On Tuesday, the main television channel and the radio channel suspended their news broadcasts, awaiting the establishment of new editorial structures for them.
The Fidesz party thus accuses an attempt to establish "an autocratic regime," the same thing for which Viktor Orban was accused when he was in power.