“We are not persecuting people; we are dismantling a system while building a democratic one, lawfully, through constitutional means,” the health minister wrote on Sunday in a post titled “On the Eve of Tomorrow’s Basic Law Amendment.”

Zsolt Hegedűs wrote: “over the past sixteen years, not only a governing system has been built up, but also a deep state that — through long mandates, supermajority rules, entrenched officeholders, and centres of power created with public funds — seeks to maintain the old system’s lying, corrupt, and hypocritical influence even after an electoral defeat.”

He added that among its components are those “scribes” who should have pointed the way toward constitutionality, human dignity, and national unity — but did not.

The minister stressed that legality is not the same as morality. It is therefore not sufficient to argue that the President of the Republic, the Prosecutor General, or any other public dignitary made every decision within the framework of the law. “The question is not only whether they violated a law. It is also whether they fulfilled the moral duty of their office. Did they speak up when their position required it? Did they defend human dignity, the rule of law, and national unity?” he wrote.

Mentioning former Presidents of the Republic, Zsolt Hegedűs stated: Pál Schmitt “fell” over plagiarism, Katalin Novák over her clemency decision, and Tamás Sulyok over his silence.

According to the minister, Tamás Sulyok repeatedly failed in what he described as the most important moral duty of a president of the republic: to draw a line before power, to defend human dignity, to watch over the unity of the nation, and to speak up for those who lack the institutional means to do so.

“If, following a landslide electoral mandate, these constitutional officeholders do not resign, the new democratic majority must terminate their mandates by peaceful and rule-of-law means” — wrote Zsolt Hegedűs, adding that this is also why the Basic Law must be amended on Monday.

“Not out of revenge, and not simply to replace one party’s people with another party’s people. But to dismantle the deep state, restore popular sovereignty, and ensure that the ousted system and any future system can no longer paralyse the will of voters through entrenched officeholders. We are not persecuting individuals. We are dismantling a system while building a democratic one. It is no small task or responsibility. Peacefully, lawfully, by constitutional means” — the Minister of Health concluded his post.

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