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Hungary’s president resigns after backlash for pardon in child sex abuse case
Fox News ^ | 2/10/2024 | Benjamin Weinthal

Posted on 02/12/2024 4:54:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus

President says she made a mistake and there should be 'zero tolerance that applies to pedophilia'.

The president of Hungary stepped down on Saturday following backlash to her pardon of a man who had been convicted of concealing sexual abuse of children.

Katalin Novák, 46, delivered a televised message on Saturday that she would throw in the towel after a Friday street protest against her pardoning decision.

"I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people," Novák said Saturday.

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"I made a decision to grant a pardon last April, believing that the convict did not abuse the vulnerability of children whom he had overseen. I made a mistake as the pardon and the lack of reasoning were suitable to trigger doubts over the zero tolerance that applies to pedophilia," Novák said.

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Trying to contain the political fallout from the scandal, Orban, whose Fidesz party is beginning the campaign for European Parliament elections in June, submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament late on Thursday depriving the president of the right to pardon crimes committed against children.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hungary; orban
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1 posted on 02/12/2024 4:54:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Same country that doesn’t want to support Zeeperism.


2 posted on 02/12/2024 4:56:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: marcusmaximus

this is how properly functioning countries work


3 posted on 02/12/2024 4:56:36 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Presidential pardons for pedophiles in Orban’s Hungary is normal?


4 posted on 02/12/2024 5:00:18 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

What, don’t support global wars of aggression, don’t support sexual perversion, don’t support neo-con corruption, defend your borders and don’t allow mass migration of cultural enrichers? What’s a poor Zeeper to do here wehn your hero is a pelvis thrusting dancing queen?


5 posted on 02/12/2024 5:03:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: marcusmaximus

I know you are a Zeeper, but you aren’t really that stupid are you? The Hungarian President is gone. Your young girl sniffing Zeeper supporting hero is still President.


6 posted on 02/12/2024 5:08:20 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: marcusmaximus; AndyJackson

she was appropriately fired while your Biden showered with his young daughter.


7 posted on 02/12/2024 5:10:54 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: AndyJackson

“What, don’t support global wars of aggression, don’t support sexual perversion, don’t support neo-con corruption, defend your borders and don’t allow mass migration of cultural enrichers,” all the while being a toady to Moscovia?


8 posted on 02/12/2024 5:11:02 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Didn’t register with me you were a Zeeper too. Defending your nation is toadying to that dying derilict President gravy on fries Poutine. Got it.


9 posted on 02/12/2024 5:18:23 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: JonPreston

In Orban’s Hungary, their president pardoned a pedophile and thought she would get away with it.


10 posted on 02/12/2024 5:19:41 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

What you have to understand is that Russia is a joke of a nation. One little push and it was going to come apart at the seems while our democracy is “stroink as bull.”


11 posted on 02/12/2024 5:20:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Keeping perverts in office is a sign of solidarity against Putin. Ridding yourself of perverts shows you are perverted.

Please keep up with Z-logic.

12 posted on 02/12/2024 5:21:52 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Scott Ritter is a pedophile too. If he lived in Hungary, he would have been given a presidential pardon too.


13 posted on 02/12/2024 5:22:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: AndyJackson

Propagandists can never be made to understand because their action is accomplished for money


14 posted on 02/12/2024 5:22:18 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: AndyJackson

The anthisis of the made up word Zeeper is Zelocon.

As in she is a neo isolationist Zelocon on steroids


15 posted on 02/12/2024 5:25:50 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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What you have to understand is that Russia is a joke of a nation

Ouch!

That's gonna leave a mark ...


16 posted on 02/12/2024 5:26:35 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: bert

Scott Ritter is a convicted pedophile.


17 posted on 02/12/2024 5:27:36 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Katalin Novák

She looks rather butch...

18 posted on 02/12/2024 5:30:01 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: marcusmaximus
Scott Ritter is a pedophile too

Your Zelenskyy plays the piano with his marcus

19 posted on 02/12/2024 5:30:50 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus

I know nothing about the case. The article quotes her as saying that she didn’t believe he was a pedophile.
Maybe she’s just saying that now as an excuse, but if she really believed that at the time, then she’s guilty of being a fool or ignorant, not someone who supports pedophilia


20 posted on 02/12/2024 5:31:24 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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