Hungary’s Prime Minister Péter Magyar to amend the Constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok

Key points

• Hungary's government will amend the Constitution to remove the country’s President, part of a push by the new Prime Minister Péter Magyar to eliminate officials appointed under former populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
• Magyar and his Tizsa party won an overwhelming victory in an election in April.
• With a two-thirds majority in Parliament, they can make sweeping changes to the autocratic political system Mr. Orbán built over his 16 years in power.
• Since his election victory, Mr. Magyar has repeatedly called on President Tamás Sulyok, appointed by Mr. Orbán's party, to resign or be removed by constitutional means.
• Mr. Magyar had given Mr. Sulyok, whom he repeatedly referred to as “Orbán's puppet,” a May 31 deadline to leave office.