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Pressure is mounting on Hungary's head of state to resign after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. Hungary's ...
Katalin Éva Veresné Novák [1] (Hungarian: [ˈkɒtɒlin ˈnovaːk], born 6 September 1977) is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44, she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post.
Hungary’s conservative president resigned Saturday amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children's home.
The Hungarian news publication 444.hu first reported on 2 February 2024 that according to a document available in the Collection of Court Decisions the President of Hungary Katalin Novák granted a presidential pardon to the former deputy director of the Bicske children's home, Endre Kónya on 27 April 2023 according the decision of the Curia ...
February 10 – President Novák resigns due to the scandal involving her pardon of Endre Kónya. Judit Varga, who was serving as Minister of Justice in 2023 and had countersigned the pardon, also resigns as a Member of Parliament and withdraws her candidacy for member of the European Parliament in the 2024 election. [8] [9]
The vice principal's pardon became known to the public on 2 February 2024, after which protests demanding Novák's resignation took place. [ 2 ] The opposition alliance United for Hungary called for the direct election of the President of the Republic in their manifesto for the 2022 parliamentary election , which would require amending or ...
Hungarian opposition parties have demanded the resignation of the president over her decision to pardon a man convicted as an accomplice in helping cover up a case in a children's home whose ...