The head of government of Hungary, Péter Magyar, has set midnight this Sunday as the deadline for the country's president, Tamás Sulyok, to resign, and has warned that if the resignation does not occur, he will go to the headquarters of the Presidency on Monday.
"The deadline for resignation is midnight tonight. On Monday morning I will go with the Minister of Justice to meet with President Tamás Sulyok," Magyar published on social media.
Magyar swept the elections held on April 12, and after his victory, he is now demanding that Sulyok, who is close to the former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, leave the head of state position.
Sulyok announced on Friday that he had asked the Venice Commission, the highest consultative body on constitutional law of the Council of Europe, to analyze the case to find a solution in accordance with current regulations.
The president has criticized Magyar for having "publicly" expressed his concerns about a possible veto "in the legislative process necessary to obtain the blocked funds from the European Union," especially after the prime minister has threatened to remove him from office through a constitutional reform, taking advantage of the broad majority of his party, Tisza, in Parliament.