
Hungarian lawmakers elected the chief of the nation’s constitutional court to be the next president after a child-abuse scandal toppled the head of state this month and threatened to sap support for long-time Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Tamas Sulyok, a 67-year-old jurist who has led a highly politicized top court under Orban, will succeed Katalin Novak, Hungary’s first female president, who resigned on Feb. 10 in the fallout over a pardon she gave to a man ensnared in a child sex-abuse case.












