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2024-02-10T17:14:05.250Z
Highlights: Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation on Saturday February 10. Novak's decision to pardon a convict involved in a child crime case last April caused outrage in Hungary. In March 2022, Novak will become the first woman to occupy this essentially ceremonial function. She acknowledged having made “an error’ in her decision to grant a pardon to a convicted child sex offender in April 2013. The pardon was later overturned by a court of law and the convict was sentenced to life in prison.
The presidential decision to pardon a convict involved in a child molestation case last April caused outrage in the country.
Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation on Saturday February 10 after the indignation caused in the central European country by her decision to pardon a convict involved in a child crime case.
“I am renouncing my post
,” declared Saturday during a solemn speech this close friend of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, acknowledging having made
“an error
. ”
In March 2022, she became the first woman to occupy this essentially ceremonial function.
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