Tisza Party group nominates András Baka for president

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Aug 08, 2026 · 744 words · By Gábor Tanács

Tisza Party Governance Political Transition in Hungary Rule of Law and Judicial Independence

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What to know about Tisza Party Governance

On Saturday, the Tisza Party, which has a constitutional majority in Parliament, picked András Baka who was removed by Fidesz from the Supreme Court, to be elected president on Tuesday.

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What happened

On Saturday, the Tisza Party, which has a constitutional majority in Parliament, picked András Baka who was removed by Fidesz from the Supreme Court, to be elected president on Tuesday.

Why it matters

András Baka is an internationally recognised legal scholar, who began his career at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, then became director general of the College of Public Administration.

Common ground

The peak of his international judicial career came when he served for two terms, between 1991 and 2008, as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 20 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Medián... measured the first significant drop (3–5 percentage points) in support for Tisza, which nevertheless remained... at 68% among decided party voters”

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Claim 2: “President Tamás Sulyok was ultimately removed by means of a short sentence inserted into the 17th constitutional amendment”

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Claim 3: “the Tisza Party, which has a constitutional majority in Parliament, picked András Baka... to be elected president on Tuesday”

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Multiple independent sources (Brussels Signal, Euronews, and Wikipedia) confirm that the Tisza Party holds a constitutional majority and nominated András Baka for president.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 12 April 2026 to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. It was the 10th parliamentary election and the highest-turnout election since Hungary's…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_e…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Count István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged (Hungarian: [ˈtisɒ ˈiʃtvaːn], English: Stephen Emery Louis Paul Tisza, short name: Stephen Tisza); (22 April 1861 – 31 October 1918) was a poli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Tisza

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Respect and Freedom Party, commonly known by its Hungarian abbreviations Tisza Party and TISZA, is a conservative, centre-right, pro-European, and populist political party in Hungary. It has been …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisza_Party

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Claim 4: “Baka subsequently won a case against the Hungarian state at the European Court of Human Rights, which found that his rights to a fair trial and to freedom of expression had been violated”

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Wikipedia (Baka v. Hungary) and other news sources confirm the ECtHR ruled that Hungary violated Baka's rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression.

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web search NEUTRAL — Baka v. Hungary was a case of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard by the second section of the court in 2014 and the Grand Chamber in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_v._Hungary

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web search NEUTRAL — Andras Baka’s freedom of expression violated after he criticised judicial reform, chamber rules.
https://www.ft.com/content/e2c05ede-3953-11e6-a780-b48ed7b61…

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web search NEUTRAL — The European court later ruled that his dismissal had violated his rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression, a judgement the Council of Europe said Hungary failed to fully implement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/9/hungary-nominates-fo…

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Claim 5: “Prime Minister Péter Magyar... announced that the parliamentary group was nominating women's world chess champion Judit Polgár”

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Claim 6: “he served for two terms, between 1991 and 2008, as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg”

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Three independent sources (Wikipedia, Telex, and a legal report) confirm Baka served two terms as a judge at the ECtHR from 1991 to 2008.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An early indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 11 August 2026 following Tamás Sulyok's removal by constitutional amendment. András Baka, a former president of the Supreme Court of Hung…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_presidential_el…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — András Bálint Baka (born 11 December 1952) is a Hungarian jurist and politician who has served as president of Hungary since August 2026. He previously served as president of the Supreme Court of Hung…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/András_Baka

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Baka v. Hungary was a case of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard by the second section of the court in 2014 and the Grand Chamber in 2016. Both the section and the Grand Chamber found th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_v._Hungary

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Claim 7: “János Áder then became president, and after his second term he was followed by Katalin Novák”

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Claim 8: “Péter Magyar had already indicated that... they would remove most of the high public dignitaries appointed by Fidesz, with the exception of central bank governor Mihály Varga”

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Web results from Telex and Wikipedia confirm Péter Magyar's intent to remove Fidesz-appointed 'puppets' if given a two-thirds mandate.

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web search NEUTRAL — Péter Magyar (born 16 March 1981) is a Hungarian politician and lawyer who has been serving as prime minister of Hungary since May 2026. He has also been the president of the Tisza Party since 2024. M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_Magyar

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web search NEUTRAL — As early as during the campaign, the president of the Tisza Party said that if they received a two-thirds mandate in the election, they would amend the Fundamental Law and then remove the “puppets” ap…
https://telex.hu/english/2026/04/20/more-than-half-of-hungar…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hungarian prime minister-designate Peter Magyar called on President Tamas Sulyok to step down from office at his first international press conference on April 12, saying the Tisza Party would otherwis…
https://www.intellinews.com/peter-magyar-calls-on-president-…

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Claim 9: “in 2009, parliament elected him president of the Supreme Court”

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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and news reports, confirm that the Hungarian Parliament elected Baka as president of the Supreme Court in 2009.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ágnes Forsthoffer (born 24 March 1980) is a Hungarian politician and businesswoman who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2026. Before becoming speaker and acting president, Forsthof…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ágnes_Forsthoffer

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Claim 10: “During the period of government from 2010 to 2016, only János Áder... managed to serve the two terms available to him in full”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute this specific claim about János Áder's terms relative to others between 2010-2016.

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Claim 11: “She [Katalin Novák] had to step down after the pardon for sex abuse scandal”

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Claim 12: “László Sólyom... was not elected for a second term”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding László Sólyom's second term election status.

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Claim 13: “His successor, Pál Schmitt, a former Fidesz vice president, fell over a plagiarism scandal”

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Claim 14: “Polgár declined Magyar's offer”

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Claim 15: “Tisza chose Baka from three candidates; the other two were historian Ignác Romsics and independent lawyer Botond Fülöp”

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Claim 16: “The second Orbán government... removed him by renaming the Supreme Court as the Curia”

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While sources confirm Baka was the president of the Supreme Court and was later removed/ousted, the specific detail that he was removed *by renaming* the court to the Curia is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — He previously served as president of the Supreme Court of Hungary from 2009 to 2011 and as a member of the National Assembly from 1990 to 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/András_Baka

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web search NEUTRAL — András Baka, former president of the Supreme Court, delivers a speech at a demonstration organised by the Hungarian Association of Judges for judicial independence.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/08/tisza-party-gr…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hungary's parliament has elected András Baka, 73, a respected judge and former head of the Supreme Court, as head of state. The Hungarian president is a largely figurehead role, but Baka's rule promis…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyed7rem5no

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Claim 17: “András Baka... began his career at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources explicitly state that Baka began his career as a legal scholar at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University was founded in 1667 and it is located in Egyetem tér in Belváros-Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELTE_Faculty_of_Law

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary

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Claim 18: “At that point Tamás Sulyok was elected”

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Claim 19: “then became director general of the College of Public Administration”

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Wikipedia and other biographical profiles confirm Baka served as the director general of the College of Public Administration.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fundamental Law of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország alaptörvénye), the country's constitution, was adopted by Parliament (the National Assembly) on 18 April 2011, promulgated by the president a we…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Law_of_Hungary

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tünde Handó (born 1 May 1962) is a Hungarian jurist and judge, who served as the inaugural President of the OBH (National Judiciary Office) from 1 January 2012 to 30 November 2019. On 1 January 2020, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tünde_Handó

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Claim 20: “Botond Fülöp... publishes under the pseudonym Vidéki Prókátor and was the one who brought to light the pardon case that led to President Katalin Novák's resignation”

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