Hungary's state news agency has cropped the country's president out of official photographs
BUDAPEST – Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has rejected Péter Magyar’s mounting calls for his resignation, deepening an institutional standoff that risks escalating into full blown constitutional crisis just days after the new government took office.
In an interview with Hungarian outlet Index on Monday, Sulyok defended his constitutional role and dismissed attempts by the prime minister and his new administration to pressure him out of office as politically motivated reinterpretations of presidential powers.
“The President of the Republic expresses the unity of the nation by placing political decisions into a public law framework and giving them constitutional rank,” Sulyok said. “New political expectations do not change my legal status.”
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