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The new president of Hungary will be the current president of the Constitutional Court, Tamás Sulyok, after parliament elected the 67-year-old as expected on Monday with 134 votes. Five members of parliament voted against Sulyok’s election, and several opposition groups stayed away from the vote. Sulyok, who was put forward by the Fidesz party of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was the only candidate for the post. His predecessor, Katalin Novák, resigned just over a fortnight ago due to the uproar caused by her pardon of a man convicted of being an accomplice to child sex abus…

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