Il presidente ungherese firma un emendamento alla Legge fondamentale che pone fine al suo mandato

Why publish this with no translation, no explanataion?! this is trash reporting and should be deleted.

Tamás Sulyok [announced](https://www.facebook.com/reel/1905217423493835) on his social media page that he has signed the 17th amendment to the Fundamental Law, effectively ending his term as President of Hungary. His presidential mandate will end the day after the signed law is published in the Hungarian Official Gazette.

Other than ending the term of President Tamás Sulyok, among other things, [the seventeenth amendment](https://telex.hu/english/2026/06/22/magyar-announces-operation-cleansing-fire) to the Fundamental Law of Hungary:

* introduces a 12-year term limit for serving as a member of Parliament;
* establishes the National Agency for the Recovery and Protection of State Assets;
* and reinstates the retirement age of 70 at the Constitutional Court, thus ending the tenure of the court’s president, Péter Polt (who was appointed by the Orbán administration), and will send several other judges to retirement in the fall.

# Orbán: May God watch over Hungary!

The last barrier has fallen today,” former prime minister Viktor Orbán wrote on [his Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1603542091143383&id=100044628210344&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=Usaz35wygKL2X3oq#) shortly after Tamás Sulyok announced that he has signed the 17th amendment to the Fundamental Law.

According to Orbán, authoritarianism is no longer a threat but a reality. “If this could be done to the President of the Republic, then no one will be safe tomorrow. May God watch over Hungary!”

# A new president to be elected within a month

Parliament will elect a new president by means of a secret ballot within thirty days. The date for electing the new head of state is set by the House Speaker, and the new president will take office on the eighth day after the election results have been announced. Until then, the duties and powers of the office will be exercised by House Speaker Ágnes Forsthoffer, whose parliamentary duties will meanwhile be carried out by one of her designated deputies.

According to the Fundamental Law, any Hungarian citizen over the age of thirty-five is eligible to be elected president of the republic. For a candidate’s name to appear on the ballot, they must be nominated by at least one-fifth of the members of Parliament—that is, 40 members. This means that aside from the Tisza Party, only the 44-member Fidesz faction would be able to nominate a presidential candidate on its own; neither the KDNP nor the Mi Hazánk faction can do so without Fidesz.

Péter Magyar had previously promised that they intend to nominate a person who embodies the unity of the nation and whom the opposition members of Parliament would also support. However, he has not yet mentioned any names. He also said that the current amendment to the Fundamental Law will only create a temporary situation, and it is quite possible that the new Constitution (which the Tisza Party intends to work on for at least the next year) which will be validated by a referendum, will introduce a system of direct presidential elections.

ETA: excerpt from the article I have linked in the post (written in English) and it is a credible, independent source

Yes please we need this everywhere

president: “He (the president) should only intervene if a systemic disruption arises in the functioning of the democratic institutional system,”

well duh! blockhead! that is just what has been going on for more than a decade!

[Agnes Forsthoffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gnes_Forsthoffer) has been selected as interim president.