{"id":5613,"date":"2026-04-03T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/5613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:07:09","slug":"how-viktor-orban-laid-traps-to-stop-his-successor-from-running-hungary-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/5613\/","title":{"rendered":"How Viktor Orb\u00e1n laid traps to stop his successor from running Hungary \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The constitutional court is a prime example of how Orb\u00e1n can make life difficult for Magyar, as Fidesz has appointed all of its 15 justices, including a former Fidesz defense minister. The Curia, Hungary\u2019s supreme court, is headed by Andr\u00e1s Varga, who was appointed by the Fidesz-controlled parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Any laws a Magyar government attempts to pass could fall foul of the top courts. \u201cBecause of the partiality of the Supreme Court or at least its president, and the constitutional court, this will be a very difficult battle for Tisza,\u201d said Adrienn Lacz\u00f3, a former judge who resigned in November 2024 in protest over the lack of judicial independence.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Orb\u00e1n\u2019s lawmakers in December strengthened the veto power of President Sulyok, who was appointed in 2024 for a five-year term.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2266165919-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8219114\"  \/>Hungarian President Tam\u00e1s Sulyok (center) inspects a military honour guard during a flag-hoisting ceremony in front of the parliament in Budapest, on March 15, 2026. | Attila Kisbenedek\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrb\u00e1n has been worst-scenario planning in case he\u2019s defeated,\u201d said Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional law and elections professor at Princeton University. She highlighted that the amendment to the constitution passed in December would \u201cmake it almost impossible for a new parliament to impeach or remove the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president, meanwhile, can obstruct legislation by sending it back to parliament or by referring it to the constitutional court, which can deem it unconstitutional, potentially blowing up any reform efforts by Tisza.<\/p>\n<p>Scheppele drew a comparison with the problems that Prime Minister Donald Tusk is facing in Poland with his efforts to advance reforms in the face of the veto power of the president,\u00a0Karol Nawrocki, who aligns with the\u00a0nationalist conservative Law and Justice party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The constitutional court is a prime example of how Orb\u00e1n can make life difficult for Magyar, as Fidesz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[5959,1062,1426,3084,1502,650,5960,1664,1102,1846,1065,467,1974,5961,5962,3182,421,1104,422,2042,3606,5963,2511,5964,1072,1430,388,934,5965,1433,932,5966,4019,4020,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-5613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-viktor-orban","8":"tag-austerity","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-competition-rules","15":"tag-courts","16":"tag-democracy","17":"tag-education","18":"tag-elections","19":"tag-energy","20":"tag-environment","21":"tag-eu-affairs","22":"tag-ferenc-gyurcsany","23":"tag-healthcare","24":"tag-hungarian-elections-2026","25":"tag-hungarian-politics","26":"tag-hungary","27":"tag-infrastructure","28":"tag-judiciary","29":"tag-katalin-cseh","30":"tag-lobbying","31":"tag-mayors","32":"tag-media","33":"tag-meps","34":"tag-parliament","35":"tag-peter-magyar","36":"tag-playbook","37":"tag-rule-of-law","38":"tag-security","39":"tag-skills","40":"tag-spectrum","41":"tag-transparency","42":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}