The Tisza parliamentary group has initiated that parliament elect the new president of the republic next Tuesday.

In a document published on the parliament’s website on Wednesday, group leader Andrea Bujdosó wrote that they are initiating that the agenda of the National Assembly’s extraordinary session on 10–11 August be supplemented with the election of the president of the republic.

On behalf of the Tisza group, they also proposed that the date of the presidential election be Tuesday, 11 August.

Through the 17th amendment to the Basic Law, the mandate of former head of state Tamás Sulyok expired at midnight on 20 July, and his powers are temporarily exercised, in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Law, by Ágnes Forsthoffer, the Speaker of the National Assembly.

Parliament must elect a new president of the republic within thirty days.

Artificial intelligence was used for the translation of parts of the original Hungarian text.