Budapest: Hungarian lawmakers have elected Constitutional Court chief Tamas Suliok as the country’s new president. Of the 199 MPs, 146 took part in the voting on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. Of these, 134 votes were cast in favor and five against. Seven votes were invalid. Most of the opposition MPs did not participate in the voting. “As a jurist, and in my role as President of the Republic, my most important commitment is to work for the public good and uphold the basic values of the law,” Sulioc said in a speech during his nomination on Thursday. The unity of the country has to be given concrete shape.”
Suliok’s predecessor, Katalin Novak, stepped down on February 10 following the child abuse pardon scandal. Suliok has been elected for a five-year term. Born on March 24, 1956 in Kiskunfélégyháza in southern Hungary, Suliok graduated from József Attila University in Szeged in 1980. European law qualification in 2004 and also PhD in 2013. Suliok has served as a judicial clerk, legal advisor, lawyer and as Honorary Consul of Austria in Szeged and guest lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Szeged since 2005. She has held the role of Vice-President of the Constitutional Court since 2015, while He was elected President of the Constitutional Court in 2016.
Tamas Suliok becomes the new President of Hungary
