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A parliamentary maneuver involving a constitutional amendment has paved the way: In the absence of the opposition parties FIDESZ and KDNP, the governing TISZA Party elected András Baka, the former president of Hungary’s now-dissolved Supreme Court, as the new head of state. The selection process and the nomination have drawn sharp criticism.
On Tuesday, during an extraordinary session, the Hungarian Parliament elected András Baka as the new president. Baka, former head of the Supreme Court, was the only candidate who was able to secure the necessary supporting signatures.
The election took place by secret ballot with 140 votes in favor and 6 against—albeit in a largely empty plenary chamber.
Both the FIDESZ and KDNP parliamentary groups boycotted the vote as well as the subsequent inauguration. They accuse the TISZA party of power-grabbing and breaking previous promises.
Already during the debates preceding the agenda, serious accusations were leveled against the new head of state and the TISZA leadership. László Toroczkai, the parliamentary group leader of the right-wing “Our Homeland” (Mi Hazánk) movement, called the selection process simply “scandalous.” He stated that nothing remained of the broad societal consensus once promised by TISZA.
Toroczkai also pointed out the contradictions in the statements made by TISZA’s leadership.
Just a few weeks ago, their parliamentary group leader had described chess grandmaster Judit Polgár as the ideal candidate for the highest office in the land. The fact that 73-year-old András Baka has now been nominated is met with incomprehension by the opposition, particularly because the government had introduced an age limit of 70 for constitutional court justices.
Bence Rétvári, parliamentary group leader of the KDNP (Christian Democrats), also did not hold back on his criticism. He spoke of the election of a president “in place of a head of state who was removed from office illegitimately.”
András Baka is the product of a one-party decision,
he said.
He explained that the candidate had been deliberately kept from the public in the run-up to the nomination to avoid criticism. Furthermore, Baka’s past as a former member of parliament contradicts TISZA’s pledges to appoint a head of state who is independent of political parties and politics, he added.
The FIDESZ parliamentary group reacted just as sharply. The termination of the term of office of the previous head of state, Tamás Sulyok, effective July 20—made possible by the 17th amendment to the Constitution—was “arbitrary and illegitimate,” the party stated in a press release.
The process marks the “lowest point of Hungarian democracy since the political transition” and is evidence of the TISZA government’s growing arbitrariness.
András Baka is personally unfit to embody the unity of the nation; his nomination mocks the legacy of the 1956 Revolution as well as the victims of police violence in 2006, according to FIDESZ.
The chair of the parliamentary session, Anikó Dr. Hallerné Dr. Nagy, read out Baka’s résumé before the election.
Born in 1952, the lawyer looks back on a long career. After holding positions at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and serving as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, he presided over the Supreme Court from 2009 until his premature dismissal in early 2012. Later, he served as Senate Chair at the Supreme Court (now called the Curia) and as Vice President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe.
András Baka will take office eight days after the election results are announced.
Yet the political aftertaste remains bitter. The outcome of the TISZA Party’s grandly announced reforms is, in the end, the appointment of an elderly lawyer who is largely unknown to broad segments of the population—a scenario that bears a striking resemblance to a familiar political pattern in Hungary.
Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd
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