BUDAPEST: The Hungarian parliament on Monday passed a constitutional tweak to oust the president, as Prime Minister Peter Magyar pushes to loosen the grip of nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orban on the country.
Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April on the promise of turning the page on Orban´s 16-year rule, has accused unpopular President Tamas Sulyok and other top state officials of being his predecessor´s “puppets”.
His push to remove Sulyok comes as the pro-European conservative rushes to undo the concentration of power that marked Orban´s self-styled “illiberal” premiership, which won praise from US President Donald Trump but was widely viewed as corrupt.
