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Hungarian president’s days numbered?

Fri, Feb 17 2012 15:47 CET

byRobert Hodgson, The Budapest Times

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Hungarian president’s days numbered?

Hungary's president Pal Schmitt holds an official copy of Hungary's new constitution at the National Archives of Hungary in Budapest, January 5 2012.

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Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán reportedly spoke openly to party members at a caucus meeting last week of the possible removal of president Pál Schmitt from office. Schmitt, championed by Orbán and voted in by his conservative Fidesz party in 2010, is under suspicion of stealing huge chunks of his 1992 doctoral thesis from the work of others.
 
Citing unnamed sources, the left-wing daily Népszava wrote on Tuesday that Orbán and members of the governing alliance even discussed a possible replacement. The newspaper named foreign minister János Martonyi as a likely candidate.
 
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