On Wednesday, MPs from Prime Minister Peter Magyar's party submitted a draft amendment to the Constitution, which would limit the prime minister's term of office to two terms, a total of 8 years, reports MTI news agency. The applicants explain that want to restore the rule of law in Hungary.
The bill includes a provision that a person who has already served as prime minister for such a period, even if the terms of office were not consecutive, she will not be able to run for this position again.
The limit is to cover the entire period from May 2, 1990. The amendment will enter into force if two thirds of the MPs support it, and it will come into force the day after its announcement. Tisza currently holds 141 seats out of 199 in parliament.
Orban out of the race for prime minister
After the changes come into force, Viktor Orban, who until May headed the government for 16 consecutive years, he could not become prime minister again. Magyar announced such restrictions already during the campaign before the April 12 elections. He then declared that he intended to enter the maximum term of office of the prime minister into the constitution.
— The Hungarian people have experienced what happens when someone can be prime minister for 16 or 20 years with full power, and at the same time systematically and deliberately dismantles the rule of law, abolishes the system of checks and balances, treats the country as a hostage and a fiefdom of his own family, argued Magyar.
Orban headed the Hungarian government from 1998 to 2002, and then continuously from 2010 until Tisza's cabinet was sworn in in May this year.
