Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation on Saturday after outrage over the pardoning of a man implicated in a child sex abuse case.
“I am resigning my post,” said 46-year-old Novak, acknowledging that she had made a mistake.
Last week, independent news website 444 reported the decision. Therefore, growing pressure from opposition politicians and protests outside the presidential palace on Friday night served to confirm the impatience for such action. As a result, three presidential advisers also left their posts.
“I apologise to those who I hurt and all the victims who may have had the impression that I did not support them,” the former minister for family policy added.
A few minutes after her statement, Judit Varga, the justice minister, also announced her “withdrawal from public life.”
Viktor Orbán declared on Thursday that he wants to revise Hungary’s constitution to eliminate the possibility of pardoning paedophile criminals.
