Posted on 02/10/2024 3:29:46 PM PST by Libloather
Hungary's first female president, Katalin Novak, resigned on Saturday after mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children's home.
Novak, 46, a close ally of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the youngest person to hold the office of president, resigned just a week after her presidential pardon was first reported.
The revelation caused a public uproar and demands from the opposition for her and former Justice Minister Judit Varga to quit. Varga, a rising star in Orban's ruling Fidesz party, resigned as a lawmaker on Saturday.
'I made a mistake... Today is the last day that I address you as a president,' Novak, whose role as president is largely ceremonial, said as she announced her resignation on state television.
She cut short an official visit to Qatar and returned to Budapest unexpectedly on Saturday.
'I made a decision to grant a pardon last April believing that the convict did not abuse the vulnerability of children whom he had overseen. I made a mistake as the pardon and the lack of reasoning was suitable to trigger doubts over the zero tolerance that applies to paedophilia,' she said.
She said in a statement on earlier this week: 'Under Katalin Novák's presidency, there is no pardon for paedophiles, and there never will be. There is no excuse for paedophilia.'
The scandal was a rare setback for Orban, who has been in power since 2010, and who faces European parliament elections just as the country emerges from an inflation crisis.
Orban has for years campaigned to protect children from what he has described as LGBTQ activists roaming the nation's schools. This has been one of several issues over which Orban has clashed with the European Commission.
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Comp’d, comp’d, everything is comp’d.
It was no mistake.
Sadly, in our country, the story would get deep six’d very quickly.
probably not ...
Always putting feelings first....
As a dad, I would serve him an “unpardon”.
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Novak, the youngest person to ever take on the role as president, pardoned a group of 25 people last year as part of a visit made by Pope Francis,
One time I mistakenly parked in the president’s parking place at Buda Castle in Budapest. A soldier quickly came out and told me to move.
Guess that parking spot is open now.
“Hungary’s first female President is forced to resign after she pardoned man who helped cover up sexual abuse in children’s home”
Talk about BAD BREAKS. In virtually EVERY COUNTRY in the West, starting with Ukraine and ending with Canada, her past would have made her a NATIONAL HERO. But no, she’s stuck in the ONE Western country that still protects kids.
Bummer for her, but glad to see she’s at least being dealt with.
Details. I wondered, why would Novak stumble so badly?
Was the list of 25 pardons, submitted by the Pope?
No evidence of that. Novak declines to explain her actions.
MOST women are NOT CUT OUT FOR LEADERSHIP!!
She pardoned about 25 right before the visit with the pope. Very little news on the others. There is something in this with the pope.
One of her staff slipped this pervert in with the others?
Who were the others?
https://www.barrons.com/news/hungary-pardons-far-right-extremist-before-papal-visit-20d0c182
here is one of them or all of them including the pervert may be part of the group?
“The week of the papal visit is a special occasion for the head of state to exercise the power of pardon,” President Katalin Novak said late Thursday.
The “wide pardon” included members of the defunct far-right Hunnia (Arrows of the Hungarians) paramilitary group, she said.
Gyorgy Budahazy, 53, was handed a 13-year jail term in 2016 for acts of terror, along with 16 other militants.
They were found guilty of violent attacks between 2007 and 2009, including firing bombs, missiles and throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes and offices of socialist and liberal deputies then in power.
According to prosecutors, the group’s aim was to intimidate lawmakers to influence their vote.
Hungary has not seen such sustained organised attacks in past decades, the prosecutor noted after the trial.
Budahazy, who had said he was a victim of a “show-trial” left the prison overnight on horseback — a symbol among the far-right as a reference to the country’s rebellious past.
In an interview with Hungarian tabloid Blikk, he promised to offer “a prayer of thanks” for the pardon during the Pope’s mass on Sunday.
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/05/09/pardoned-far-right-extremist-rides-to-freedom-in-hungary/
But most people in Hungary wondered why exactly Budahazy was chosen to be the lucky recipient.
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Some wonder if the presidential pardon is another shrewd political ploy by Orban’s Fidesz party to split the far-right vote and create a rival in Mi Hazank to party leader Toroczkai.
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His sister, Edda, is also a well-known anti-abortion and anti-LGBT activist.
Although Budahazy is legally banned from elected office and cannot vote because of his conviction, he has already made it clear that he will not ride off into the sunset and withdraw from public life.
Gyorgy Budahazy is what this is all about. The pervert role in the mix?
https://www.politico.eu/article/be-open-foreigners-pope-francis-tell-hungary-viktor-orban/
"Pope Francis called for open doors and inclusivity during a visit to Hungary on Sunday."
"I say this also to our lay brothers and sisters, to catechists and pastoral workers, to those with political and social responsibilities, and to those who simply go about their daily lives, which at times are not easy. Be open doors!" he said.
"Be open and inclusive," the pope added, "then, and in this way, help Hungary to grow in fraternity, which is the path of peace."
Who was advising her?
Orban ally. Taken out by the CIA, probably.
So you are saying the pardons where political.
They threw in a token pervert for the pope. The token pervert was used against them.
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