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The government’s nominee elected for top court head – opposition parties left the parliament
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Lawmakers on Monday approved the appointment of Zsolt András Varga as the new president of the Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court. Varga was elected with 135 votes in favour and 26 against in a secret ballot.
1Varga, who took his oath of office after the vote, will assume his post on January 2, 2021. Speaking to MTI after the vote, Varga said he viewed his nomination and election to head the supreme court as an expression of trust in him by Hungary. He vowed to do his best to live up to the trust placed in him as a member of the community of the Kuria’s judges.
Varga said he would spend the next two and a half months
1Varga, who took his oath of office after the vote, will assume his post on January 2, 2021. Speaking to MTI after the vote, Varga said he viewed his nomination and election to head the supreme court as an expression of trust in him by Hungary. He vowed to do his best to live up to the trust placed in him as a member of the community of the Kuria’s judges.
Varga said he would spend the next two and a half months
getting to know the opinions of the court’s judges on the future of the institution while sharing his own views.
Under Hungary’s constitution, the president of the Kuria is elected for a nine-year term by a two-thirds majority of lawmakers. President János Áder nominated Varga to succeed Péter Darak as the head of the top court on Oct. 5.
Varga graduated from the Faculty of Law at Budapest’s Eotvos Lorand University in 1995 before going on to obtain a PhD degree there. He was habilitated at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Varga has worked as a university professor since 2012. He worked at several prosecutor’s offices in Budapest before joining the Parliamentary Commissioner’s Office. He later became a member of the Venice Commission and served as a constitutional judge from 2014. Between 2017 and 2019 he was vice-chair of the Venice Commission’s subcommittee for international law, and later the subcommittee for constitutional law. Varga is also a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Varga graduated from the Faculty of Law at Budapest’s Eotvos Lorand University in 1995 before going on to obtain a PhD degree there. He was habilitated at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Varga has worked as a university professor since 2012. He worked at several prosecutor’s offices in Budapest before joining the Parliamentary Commissioner’s Office. He later became a member of the Venice Commission and served as a constitutional judge from 2014. Between 2017 and 2019 he was vice-chair of the Venice Commission’s subcommittee for international law, and later the subcommittee for constitutional law. Varga is also a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Another shameful chapter in the history of these shameful ten years.
Now that the inflated balloon and his gang of cavemen have occupied all posts of control ( government, presidency, supreme court, 90 % of media ) can you still call Hungary a free country? Certainly not.
Hungary is a dictatorial state. De facto and de iure
Where is European Union? Hungary has to be sanctioned