US EditionFormer Fidesz MP Candidate and Chief Prosecutor Péter Polt Elected Head of Hungary's Constitutional Court
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The Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday approved the proposal to amend the laws related to the suspension of Hungarian citizenship with 134 votes in favor and 48 against, with six abstentions. Péter Polt was elected as the new President of the Constitutional Court (AC), Ákos Kozma became the new member of the AC, and Bálint Gábor Nagy was elected Prosecutor General by the parliament.
No sooner had he become a constitutional judge than the former chief prosecutor was elected as the new president of the Constitutional Court for a 12-year term by the Fidesz-majority Parliament on Wednesday. The last missing constitutional judge was also elected: at the proposal of Fidesz, Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, was added to the body, which now operates with the legally required 15 members.
Former Fidesz MP candidate and chief prosecutor Péter Polt elected head of Hungary's Constitutional Court
Péter Polt has been elected head of the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Parliament’s judicial committee voted to support the nomination of Ákos Kozma to fill a vacant post on the Constitutional Court. Former chief prosecutor Polt elected head of Hungary’s Constitutional Court The former chief prosecutor was elected by Parliament in a secret vote with 134 votes in favour, 13 votes against and no abstentions. He was elected as a …
The ninth President of the Constitutional Court is a positivist lawyer with a sense of humor - he has opened a new chapter in his life at the age of 69.
The National Assembly elected Péter Polt as President of the Constitutional Court (AC) on Wednesday, and elected Bálint Gábor Nagy as the new Prosecutor General.
At the same time, a new Chief Prosecutor was elected to replace him.
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