Overview
- Prime Minister Péter Magyar unveiled the package in parliament on Monday, calling it “Operation Purifying Fire” and saying it aims to end what he called the “Orbán mafia.”
- The proposals would set a 70‑year retirement age for Constitutional Court judges and a 12‑year limit for lawmakers, rules designed to force turnover in top judicial and legislative posts.
- Magyar also proposed a National Asset Recovery and Protection Office to pursue corruption and announced plans to begin drafting a new constitution in September.
- The government opened an online portal for public feedback that stays open until July 27, indicating lawmakers are unlikely to vote on the amendments before that consultation ends.
- President Tamás Sulyok has refused to resign and calls the dispute a constitutional crisis, but Magyar’s Tisza Party holds the two‑thirds majority needed to pass amendments which could remove Sulyok and other Orbán appointees.