Orban defended Hungarian President Shujok

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended the country's president Tamas Shujok, who was called upon to resign by the leader of the Tisa party that won the election, Peter Magyar. Orban published a post about this on April 21.

The Prime Minister said that he had signed a petition in defense of the head of state. "I have already signed it," Orban said on the Facebook social network (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

He published the text of a petition, the authors of which claim that Magyar's call for Shujok's resignation is a desire to remove the remaining obstacles on the way to "full control" over all branches of government.

"Winning the election does not give any party the right to unchecked revoke constitutional guarantees," the petition says.

According to the authors, Shujok is the opposite of Magyar. The President embodies constitutional order, national continuity and does not use power as a political weapon.

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On the same day, the leader of the Hungarian Tisa party, Peter Magyar, threatened President Tamas Shujok with forced resignation if he did not leave office voluntarily by May 31. Magyar added that if these officials do not leave their posts voluntarily by May 31, they will be forcibly dismissed, based on a "mandate received from millions of Hungarians."

On April 20, Peter Magyar nominated Anita Orban as the new head of the republic's Foreign Ministry. According to him, she has already accepted the offer. Orban had previously worked at the Foreign Ministry, her duties included energy security issues. In addition, she was a foreign policy adviser to the Tisa party.