Electoral system for the president

Constitute Project, Hungary 2011 (rev. 2016), accessed 10 March 2025

THE STATE 

The National Assembly 

Article 1 

HUNGARY's supreme organ of popular representation shall be the National Assembly. The National Assembly shall: 

a. shall adopt and amend the Fundamental Law of Hungary; 

b. shall adopt Acts; 

c. shall adopt the central budget and approve its implementation; 

d. shall authorise the expression of consent to be bound by international treaties falling within its functions and powers; 

e. shall elect the President of the Republic, the members and the President of the Constitutional Court, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the Prosecutor General, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and his or her deputies, and the President of the State Audit Office; 

f. shall elect the Prime Minister, decide on any matter of confidence related to the Government; 

e. shall dissolve representative bodies the operation of which is in conflict with the Fundamental Law; 

h. shall decide to declare a state of war and to conclude peace; 

i. shall take decisions concerning a special legal order or related to the participation in military operations; 

j. shall grant general pardons;

k. shall exercise further functions and powers laid down in the Fundamental Law or in an Act.