Hungarys parliament elects ex-Supreme Court chief András Baka as president after Orbán ally ousted
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Hungarys parliament elects ex-Supreme Court chief András Baka as president after Orbán ally ousted
Hungarys opposition Tisza party ousts Orbán after 12 years: ex-Supreme Court chief elected president
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Hungary’s Parliament elected András Baka, a former president of the Supreme Court, as the country’s new president on Tuesday in a secret ballot. Baka, 73, received 140 votes, with six lawmakers voting against him. The ruling Tisza party, which holds a two-thirds majority, nominated him for the largely ceremonial role.
Baka took the oath of office immediately after his election and will assume the presidency on Aug. 19. In his first address, he pledged to safeguard democracy and the rule of law, stating that “it is our shared responsibility to ensure that such a system never re-emerges,” referring to the era under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He emphasized accountability over retribution, saying, “Reckoning yes—revenge no,” and called for national unity and judicial independence .
The opposition Fidesz party, led by Orbán, and its ally, the Christian Democratic People’s Party, boycotted the vote, denouncing it as illegitimate. Baka was previously removed as president of Hungary’s Supreme Court in 2011 by Orbán’s government, a decision later ruled a violation of his rights by the European Court of Human Rights in 2016. The court found a direct link between Baka’s public criticism of Orbán’s judicial reforms and his dismissal .
Baka’s election follows the recent ousting of Tamás Sulyok, an Orbán ally, as part of Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s efforts to dismantle Orbán-era institutions. Magyar’s government has moved swiftly to replace key figures tied to the previous administration, sparking debate over the pace and centralization of these changes .
Before his Supreme Court tenure, Baka served as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1991 to 2008. He was also briefly a lawmaker in 1990, elected on the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum’s party list .
The presidency in Hungary is primarily ceremonial, with limited powers such as the ability to return laws to Parliament for reconsideration or submit them to the Constitutional Court for review. Baka succeeds Sulyok, whose term was cut short by a recent constitutional amendment .
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