Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has agreed to resign and signed an amendment to the country’s constitution that will end his presidency at midnight Sunday. Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party had pushed the law change in parliament to oust Sulyok, widely considered loyal to former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after
Hungary’s main public television channel has suspended news broadcasts, while a state radio station has been suspended entirely, in a bid to make its media “independent and trustworthy”. The country’s former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who was ousted in April after 16 years in power, had tightly controlled state media. Media reforms were a key