Hungary’s Orbán-appointed president vows to resist Magyar’s attempt to remove him – POLITICO

BUDAPEST — Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok — increasingly synonymous with the remnants of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s fallen regime — is vowing to resist the new government’s efforts to force him from office.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar won a landslide victory against Orbán in April and stressed in his victory speech that he would eject Sulyok and other Orbán-era appointees, whom he accused of enabling his predecessor’s entrenched system of cronyism and state capture.

But the president told POLITICO in an interview that he would fight to stay — resorting to a series of legal maneuvers — and tried to turn the tables on Magyar, accusing the new prime minister of plotting a takeover of state institutions that would give him a more absolute grip on power than Orbán had.