One of the new Hungarian government's key pledges was to recover state assets and financial instruments that have been unlawfully managed or have gone missing and to prevent further abuses.
To this end, a special authority is being set up; its head was elected on Friday by secret ballot, with 145 votes for Anna Unger.
At the same time, the institution's deputy head, Katalin Tasnádi, was appointed as deputy president in charge of investigations. The institution will be run by a five-member leadership, three of whom will be responsible for specific areas of expertise, making it possible to involve the expert who lost the election in its work in an active role.
Background
During the week, parliament's Committee on Justice and Constitutional Affairs finally heard three of the 96 candidates: Anna Róza Unger, a political scientist and lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE); lawyer Miklós Ligeti, legal director of Transparency International Hungary; and Nicholas Sárvári, a Canadian-Hungarian businessman who runs a company specialising in international asset recovery and crisis management.
