The Hungarian Tisza party is threatening to launch legal proceedings against the president if he refuses to resign.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Monday, after a meeting with President Tamas Sulyok, that his government would initiate proceedings to remove him from office if he refused to step down.

This threat comes after the landslide victory of the centrist Tisza party in the April parliamentary elections, which ended sixteen years of political dominance by Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party. The new government has pledged to replace several officials appointed under previous administrations.

Peter Magyar accuses Tamas Sulyok, elected president in 2024 thanks to the support of Fidesz MPs, of not representing national unity and of continuing to defend the interests of Viktor Orbán and his former government. The Prime Minister stated that he had directly asked the president to resign, but he refused.

"I told the president that if he maintained his position and did not resign, I would inform the Tisza deputies today of our legislative proposals and we would immediately begin the necessary procedures," said Peter Magyar.

According to him, the legislative process could last about a month and would aim to remove "all the puppets" who participated, in his words, in the dismantling of the rule of law and democracy in Hungary.

The Fidesz party denounced what it called an "illegal ultimatum" and asserted that Tamas Sulyok is serving a term of office fully in accordance with the Constitution, which runs until 2029. The party believes that there is currently no legal basis for his removal.

Before his election to the presidency, Tamas Sulyok had served as president of the Hungarian Supreme Court since 2016, a position to which he was also elected with the support of Fidesz.

This new institutional confrontation illustrates the growing tensions between Peter Magyar's government and the figures still in office from the Orbán era, as the new power seeks to reshape the country's institutions.