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Tamás Sulyok is a Hungarian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Hungary from 2024 to 2026 and the president of the Constitutional Court of Hungary from 2016 until 2024.
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politics · President of Hungary from 2024 to 2026 · lawyer · university teacher · politician · also Tamás Sulyok, Sulyok
Born 24 March 1956 · Q28599854
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“removing public office holders in a manner that openly violates the rule of law ... inflicts a deep wound on the constitutional values of democracy”
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Daily News Hungary: Hungary’s new president Baka already more popular than predecessor Sulyok ever was, poll finds
Daily News Hungary: Was there really any difference between András Baka’s removal in 2011 and Tamás Sulyok’s in 2026?
Public attention spiked: 3,051 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5× the usual 616, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: Legal career
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Public attention spiked: 8,766 Wikipedia readers in one day, 14.2× the usual 616, with 66 article edits. Coverage that week: “Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs constitutional amendment ending his own mandate” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs constitutional amendment ending his own mandate
Public attention spiked: 10,677 Wikipedia readers in one day, 17.3× the usual 616, with 22 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1364010826 by Oudomo (talk) the 17th amendment is not yet law
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Washington Post: Orbán allies protest in Hungary against plans to oust President Tamás Sulyok
Public attention spiked: 3,155 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 616, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Hungary's Magyar to amend the constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok” (Newsday).
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Newsday: Hungary's Magyar to amend the constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok
After the Tisza Party won a parliamentary supermajority on a platform pledging the dismissal of Sulyok and other Orbán-era appointees, the National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment ending Sulyok's term and trig
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Awarded Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen (2024).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil) (2024).
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China Daily Global Edition: Tamas Sulyok elected as Hungary's new president
Career landmark: President of Hungary (2024–2026).
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During a 2023 interview, Tamás Sulyok claimed that his father was sentenced to death in absentia by the People's Tribunal after World War II, because, as a divorce lawyer, he took on the case of a woman whose ex-husband later became the Communist party secretary of the city.
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Career landmark: justice of the Constitutional Court of Hungary (2014–2024).
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Career landmark: honorary consul (2000–2014).
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Or 1993 after it was discovered that their agents had sold without a license in many cases
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And worked as a legal advisor until 1991
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Studied at University of Szeged, Juris Doctor (1980).
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Born 1956-03-24.
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Tamás Sulyok was born in Kiskunfélegyháza on 24 March 1956 as the fourth and youngest child of lawyer László Sulyok (1909–1988) and economics teacher Márta Boleszny.
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László Sulyok practiced as a lawyer in Székesfehérvár since 1937.
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His paternal grandparents were city police commissioner János Sulyok (1871–1963) and Anna Knittelhoffer (1886–1974), who married in 1904.
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