Sulyok Requests Constitutional Assessment
- Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has asked the Venice Commission to assess the constitutional conflict involving his office amid pressure from Prime Minister Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party to resign.
- Since the April 12 parliamentary election, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has publicly demanded Sulyok’s resignation and threatened impeachment if he does not resign by May 31.
- The Sándor Palace and Sulyok state that calls for his removal on political grounds harm the presidency and are constitutionally invalid under the Fundamental Law.
- The Venice Commission is a Council of Europe body of constitutional experts whose advisory opinions carry significant political weight in Europe, although they are not legally binding.
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Sulyok requests constitutional assessment
President Tamás Sulyok has asked the Council of Europe’s constitutional advisory body, the European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, to assess the existing constitutional issues and provide expert assistance in resolving the controversial situation while taking European constitutional values into account, the Sándor Palace said in a statement to MTI on Friday.
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Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has formally asked the Venice Commission to assess the constitutional conflict surrounding his office after months of mounting political pressure from Prime Minister Péter Magyar and the governing Tisza Party demanding his resignation. In a statement released by the Sándor Palace on Friday, Sulyok announced that he had requested the involvement of the Council of Europe’s constitutional advisory body, officially k…
The President of the Republic, true to his oath, performs his duties in accordance with the Fundamental Law in force, as do the representatives of the Government and the Parliament.
The President of the Republic, true to his oath, performs his duties in accordance with the Fundamental Law in force, as do the representatives of the Government and the Parliament – this is how the Sándor Palace statement begins “on certain current issues concerning the constitutional duties of the President of the Republic”, which was published on Tamás Sulyok’s Facebook page. The statement states that after the elections, “based on the statem…
The President of the Republic requested the assistance of the Council of Europe's Constitutional Advisory Body.
The President of Hungary, Tamas Sulyok, has appealed to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to resolve his dispute with the new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, who has pressured him since he took office in early May to resign because of his closeness to the former Chief Executive, Viktor Orbán.
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