Leader of the Hungarian anti-Orbán opposition says President Sulyok should resign

Péter Magyar, the leader of opposition Tisza, has called on President Tamás Sulyok to resign his office.

In a statement sent to MTI late on Saturday, Magyar said the president’s reaction to his earlier call for a “real presidential address on the state of the nation” had been no more than “evasive personal insults”.

According to the opposition leader it is “sad” that Sulyok was elected president “with no scientific or political achievements” and suggested that the president’s “decade-long good relations” to the father of the minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office had helped him to the post of Constitutional Court chief, his previous position.

Magyar said that the president’s activities were “close to nil” adding that “two out of three Hungarians do not even know who he is.” He insisted that while “every third Hungarian lives below the poverty line … public services are disintegrating, health care is in a crisis, and the economy is plummeting, the president keeps a cynical silence.” While the president “fails to seek unity within the nation and neglects controls over a democratic state order … he behaves as a party stalwart of (ruling) Fidesz,” Magyar said.

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