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Polt becomes president of the Constitutional Court

In 2025 Péter Polt left the prosecutor general's office and was elected president of Hungary's Constitutional Court. Parliament first chose him as a constitutional judge in May 2025, and on 11 June 2025 elected him the court's president in a secret ballot with 134 votes in favour and 13 against.

Péter Polt (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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In 2025 Péter Polt left the prosecutor general's office and was elected president of Hungary's Constitutional Court. Parliament first chose him as a constitutional judge in May 2025, and on 11 June 2025 elected him the court's president in a secret ballot with 134 votes in favour and 13 against.

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  • Péter Polt

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    Polt becomes president of the Constitutional Court. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.boon.hu — sourceboon.hu · verified
  2. 2.portfolio.huchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: polt+constitutional court · verified
  3. 3.alkotmanybirosag.huchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: polt+constitutional court · verified
  4. 4.blikk.huchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: polt+constitutional court · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Polt becomes president of the Constitutional Court. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/polt-constitutional-court-president-2025

https://factrail.ai/facts/polt-constitutional-court-president-2025

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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