Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs constitutional amendment ending his own mandate
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok signed the seventeenth amendment to the country's Fundamental Law on Saturday, he announced on Facebook. The sitting president's mandate will end the day after the amendment takes effect.
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has put his signature to a sweeping change in the country's foundational legal document. Sulyok announced on his personal Facebook account on Saturday that he had signed the seventeenth amendment to the Fundamental Law.
The most striking element of the change is that the sitting president personally approved a measure that brings his own term to an early end. Sulyok's mandate will conclude the day immediately after the amendment formally takes effect.
Political observers in Budapest say the move could be part of a broader restructuring of the country's presidency. No official timetable for the process that follows the amendment has been announced so far.
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