Hungarian President Katalin Novak, a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, announced her resignation Saturday following outrage over a pardon granted to a man implicated in a child sexual abuse case. Hungarian President Katalin Novak announces her resignation in the presidential palace in Budapest on February 10, 2024. Advertising Read moreSoon afterwards another Orban supporter, former justice minister Judit Varga, announced she was withdrawing from public life over the affair. Novak became the first woman to hold the essentially ceremonial role of president in March 2022. "It was quick: first Novak, then Varga," said Hungarian MEP Anna Donath, reacting to the news.

Source: Forbes February 10, 2024 20:18 UTC