Hungary's new Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said he will remove incumbent President Tamás Sulyok from office through a constitutional amendment.
"We will make the necessary decisions promptly," Magyar told journalists on Monday after visiting the head of state at his official residence in Budapest, accompanied by Justice Minister Márta Görög.
On Sunday, a deadline Magyar had set for Sulyok to resign voluntarily had passed without result.
Magyar has been in office as prime minister since May 9. He replaced the right-wing populist Viktor Orbán after Magyar's centre-right Tisza (Respect and Freedom Party) won a clear victory in the parliamentary election on April 12.
In Hungary, parliament elects the president for a five-year term. Sulyok was elected president in 2024 by a parliament then dominated by Orbán's Fidesz (Federation of Young Democrats) party. Observers said Sulyok proved to be a loyal instrument of Orbán's will.
Magyar has demanded the head of state's resignation since his election victory, on the grounds that Sulyok does not embody the "unity of the nation" as required by the constitution. Sulyok, for his part, maintains that he has no grounds to resign.
Magyar's Tisza party holds the two-thirds majority in the new parliament needed to pass constitutional amendments.
Magyar did not comment on the details on Monday.
Following his election victory, he also called for the resignations of other senior officials appointed by Orbán, among them the presidents of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, as well as the head of the media regulatory authority.
