2026-07-15T12:44:53Z https://verfassungsblog.de/oai/repository/

oai:verfassungsblog.de/105010 2026-07-15T09:57:39Z posts

http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ff639107fe50a494 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-new-constitutional-amendment/ The New Constitutional Amendment and the Removal of the President - Hungary’s First Steps on a Long Road to the Rule of Law Chronowski, Nóra eng 2026-07-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hungary Rule of Law Ungarn constitutional amendment removal of the President retroactivity Ungarn Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 13 July 2026, the Hungarian Parliament enacted the 17th Amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law. In line with the TISZA Party’s election manifesto, the Amendment ends the current President of the Republic’s, Tamás Sulyok’s, term of office. This is undoubtedly an extraordinary measure. Given the President’s apparent partiality and his failure to respond consistently to earlier illiberal constitutional developments, I consider the exceptional and temporary constitutional change to be justified as part of the broader effort to lay the foundations of a renewed constitutional order.