Hungary: president ousted by amendment?

For Der Standard, the latest amendments represent

“the most far-reaching and controversial crackdown on Orbán’s legacy to date. … President Tamás Sulyok had indeed turned out to be Orbán’s henchman but was lawfully elected to Parliament in 2024 for a five-year term. That his term of office is now being ended by a constitutional side note provides ammunition for the Fidesz opposition, which had spoken of the ‘most shameful parliamentary decision’ in decades. Equally controversial is the removal of Péter Polt, the head of the Constitutional Court, by means of a reduction in the age limit. Orbán, too, was not squeamish in his choice of methods, but a competition in the discipline of ‘digging deep into the bag of tricks’ won’t be in the Hungarians’ interests.”