Tisza lawmaker Márton Melléthei-Barna, the party’s legal expert, called on President Tamás Sulyok, several public officials and the leaders of state organisations to resign in a Facebook post on Sunday, adding: “It is strength, not weakness, to resign.”
Melléthei-Barna, who is Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s brother-in-law, earlier resigned his candidacy for the post of justice minister in response to allegations of nepotism. He said that he had done so because he valued the institution’s integrity more than personal ambition, and wanted to avoid “even the appearance of irregularity.”
He called on the president, the Public Prosecutor, the chairman of the Supreme Court, the chairman and members of the Constitutional Court, the leaders of the National Office of the Judiciary, of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, of the competition office and the Audit Office to resign “to facilitate the restoration of democratic order and public trust.”
“You have made, or omitted to make, decisions in the past years that, in the view of the vast majority of Hungarians and myself, hacked away at the foundations of the rule of law and questioned the credibility and integrity of the institutions you led,” Melléthei-Barna said.
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