#presidential-powers

#presidential-powers

Hungary's parliament voted in favor of strengthening the president's position in future, a few months before parliamentary elections where longstanding Prime Minister Viktor Orban faces the biggest challenge to his stranglehold on national politics in years. Conservative opposition leader Peter Magyar and his TISZA party currently have a roughly 10-point lead in opinion polls, with a vote likely in April 2026. Hungary's parliament voted 134 in favor of the bill, with 49 votes against and two abstentions, meeting the two-thirds majority needed for the constitutional change.

A president might be able to send troops to kill a political rival, but we draw the line at sending them into cities for no reason.

No one man should have all that power. But there is an obvious solution-one that has almost been forgotten in the second Trump term. Congress should do its job.