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7 November 2024
Viktor Orbán lost another president to public embarrassment. In 2012, President Pál Schmitt resigned following a plagiarism scandal. Katalin Novák’s resignation, however, is a lot more about Orbán than about her. We have summarised the details of one of the most turbulent weeks in modern Hungarian politics.
On 10 February, Hungarian President Katalin Novák resigned in a televised speech.
The decision followed a disastrous week for her, Fidesz and Viktor Orbán.
On 2 February, Hungarian media outlets received a Supreme Court judgement, which revealed that in April 2023, Novák gave a presidential pardon to a certain Endre K., a convicted paedophile accomplice.