Hungary to revise its Constitution to oust President Tamas Sulyok, says PM Magyar

Election winner Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza Party speaks to the media on the day of a meeting with Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok after the parliamentary election, at Sandor Palace in Budapest, Hungary, April 15, 2026 | Reuters

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Hungary will amend the constitution to oust President Tamas Sulyok, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said after meeting the head of state in Budapest.

Magyar spoke on Monday, hours after a May 31 deadline he set for Sulyok’s resignation expired. The president on Sunday had ruled out resigning, citing what he described as his allegiance to local and European constitutional norms that required him to stay on.Magyar won a landslide election on April 12 on a vow to dismantle Viktor Orban’s increasingly authoritarian and corrupt system. During the campaign, he pledged to oust Orban loyalists, including Sulyok, top justices and prosecutors, whom he had accused of having failed to protect the country’s democracy.