nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ef559563ce2a3403 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260703s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ef559563ce2a3403 doi eng 342 23 Peirone, Franco Author aut The Constitution Always Speaks in the Present - On Hungary’s Constitutional Amendment Limiting the Prime Minister’s Term to Eight Years Peirone, Franco Verfassungsblog 2026-07-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The newly elected Hungarian Parliament approved the Sixteenth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary on 15 June 2026, now awaiting the President’s signature before entering into force. Specifically, the Amendment limits the prime Minister’s term of office to eight years, calculated from 1990 onwards. Effectively, this change prevents Orbán from returning to the office. I argue that the Amendment may be justified in the specific Hungarian context to prevent the consolidation of power of one-man. Moreover, I contest that the Amendment is retroactive and, for that reason, ad personam. CC BY-SA 4.0 Hungary Rule of Law Ungarn constitutional amendment prime minister retroactivity term limitation (DE-588)4078541-5 gnd Ungarn Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-constitution-speaks-in-the-present/ raw object