The Constitution Always Speaks in the Present - On Hungary’s Constitutional Amendment Limiting the Prime Minister’s Term to Eight Years Peirone, Franco Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-07-03 eng
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 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 Peirone, Franco Hungary Rule of Law Ungarn constitutional amendment prime minister retroactivity term limitation Ungarn 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-constitution-speaks-in-the-present/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/ef559563ce2a3403 260703 10.59704/ef559563ce2a3403 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)