University professor and lawyer the next nominee for Hungarian President

Opposition LMP will nominate university professor and lawyer Péter Hack for the post of Hungary’s next president, Péter Ungár, the party’s co-leader, said on Wednesday.

Ungár said on Facebook that he would contact all lawmakers about their proposal in a letter.

A joint nomination of Hack would enable Hungary to have a president representing the unity of the nation, and one who guards the rule of law and the constitutional order, he said.

Hack has been a teacher at Budapest’s ELTE university for 41 years, and his areas of research include judicial independence, the organisation and operation of justice administration, the enforcement of human rights in criminal procedures, and the legal means of fighting corruption, he said. Hack has political experience, too, but he is not a party politician, Ungar added. He noted that Hack had served as an MP from 1990 until 2002 when he retired from politics.

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