Hungary Parliament Removes President Tamás Sulyok Amid Constitutional Shake‑up

The Hungarian parliament has voted to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office, following a 17th amendment spearheaded by the Tisza party.

Spearheading the move, Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party leveraged its two‑thirds majority to steamroll the amendment through the house, citing the president’s alleged loyalty to the former Viktor Orbán regime.

The vote was the most dramatic in parliament since the Tisza party entered government early May after beating Orbán’s Fidesz in the election.

Sulyok now has five days to sign the amendment—his own death warrant—or refer it to the Constitutional Court, after which Magyar would launch impeachment proceedings that would automatically suspend him.

In the event of a rejection, the PM has urged the president to resign to avoid a constitutional crisis, while the opposition Fidesz party walked out of parliament accusing the ruling coalition of building tyranny.

The amendment also removes 70‑plus judges from the Constitutional Court and bars deputies with three parliamentary terms from standing again—affecting more than half of the current Fidesz cohort.

Former Supreme Court head András Baka welcomed the president’s removal, citing the erosion of rule of law since 2010 under Orbán’s rule.

Meanwhile, Orbán himself has largely stayed out of the public eye since his party’s defeat, with his parliamentary seat unfilled and even a boycott of the World Cup finals in the US.