Hungary’s president is NOT Viktor Orban. He’s the Prime Minister. Just getting that out of the way first, as awesome as it would be to see that piece of shit go down. The asshole who resigned on Saturday is President Katalin Novak, a member of Orban’s party who was elected in 2022.
The Associated Press reports Novak announced she was calling it quits after a weeklong shitshow that started when it was revealed that she had pardoned the former deputy director of a state-run children’s home who had been convicted of covering the director’s abuses. The scumbag, convicted in 2018, already served his three-year bid so it’s not like it was a commutation, but that he had pressured the victims to retract their valid accusations against the director – who was sentenced to eight years in the clink – is definitely not the type of offender that should ever be pardoned.
So furious was the public outrage that Orban, without naming names, on Thursday called for a constitutional amendment barring presidential pardons for sex offenders or their abettors.