Profil: András Baka soll am Dienstag zum Staatspräsidenten gewählt werden

BUDAPEST -- Hungary's ruling Tisza party on Saturday named former Supreme Court chief Andras Baka as its candidate for president, ahead of a parliamentary vote next Tuesday.

Baka was removed from the supreme court by the previous Hungarian government in 2011, a move denounced at the time as an assault on democratic freedoms.