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“We will initiate the termination of the president’s term in office as part of the “purge operation”, Magyar said in an address ahead of the agenda.
“The day after the constitutional amendments take effect, Tamás Sulyok’s mandate will end, full stop,” he declared.
Magyar also announced a comprehensive constitutional reform process starting in September, involving all of Hungarian society to “discuss and debate our common affairs”.
The new constitution will be put to a national referendum for approval, he added.
He said parliament would elect a new president to serve until the constitutional process is completed or for a maximum of five years — whichever comes first — to replace Sulyok, with the key task of restoring the prestige of the presidential office.
“By the end of his term, President Tamás Sulyok has succeeded in achieving national unity insofar as everyone wants him gone,” Magyar said.
Speaking of plans for sweeping changes, he said every related investigation would bring to light dozens of new instances of power abuses.
“There is no state institution, economic sector, movable or immovable property, street corner, or rooftop that the fallen Orbán regime, the Hungarian Cosa Nostra, the mafia” did not want to get its hands on, he said.
Magyar added that he could not name a single area that had remained free of corruption under the “Orbán regime”.
Magyar also told MPs on Monday that the government is proposing to limit the term of office for members of parliament to a maximum of 12 years.
“Our task is not only to dismantle the current political and economic mafia system, but also to ensure that such a system cannot be rebuilt in the future,” he said in parliament.
Twelve years, he added, was sufficient time for someone to serve, implement their agenda, prove their competence, and leave a lasting legacy.
“We only borrow power from the Hungarian people; it is not ours to keep forever,” he added. Anyone who forgot this, Magyar said, would sooner or later begin to treat their country as their own personal property and the people as their subjects.
He added that the goal was to ensure that “the consequences of the destruction inflicted on our homeland do not continue to poison Hungary.”
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