autotldr Bot , 5 months ago

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BUDAPEST — Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on Saturday after coming under growing pressure as a result of her controversial decision to pardon a man implicated in a sex-abuse scandal last year.

I made a mistake,” Novak said in a televised address Saturday, announcing that she would be stepping down from the ceremonial position as head of state.

“The validity of the president’s individual pardon decision requires the countersignature of the Minister of Justice,” Varga wrote in a post on Facebook.

In a bid to quell popular anger linked to the case, Orbán’s party on Thursday submitted a constitutional amendment to bar future pardons from in any way benefitting people convicted of committing crimes against children.

Novak was in Qatar attending the Hungary-Kazakhstan match at the World Water Polo Championship and had been scheduled to remain in the Gulf state through the weekend.

Hungarian media earlier Saturday reported that her plane had taken off ahead of schedule and appeared to be en route back to Budapest.

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