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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.

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To: bert

And PS talk about seeing the world through a paper towel tube, all you Zeepers can see is the cash flow from US taxpayer dollars to hero Z-man to combat the really evil vilain Ruzzian Putyput.


41 posted on 02/12/2024 6:07:20 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: linMcHlp

So who put the name on the list to start with?


42 posted on 02/12/2024 6:08:09 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: bert

because if you are really take in the comprehensive sweep of issues you ignore the southern border as just a distraction, while Zeepers have found their enemy, the perversion of the perversion averse Hungarian voters.


43 posted on 02/12/2024 6:09:10 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: McGruff

President Trump is going to wipe the floor with Biden in November.


44 posted on 02/12/2024 6:09:35 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Guess:

There is probably a list that is maintained over time, but some bureaucrat.


45 posted on 02/12/2024 6:09:50 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: AndyJackson

Being poorly educated and severely restricted in vision , you can’t get past the narrow vision of expense and see the wider vision of investment.

By investing in Ukraine, dividends in the form of a peaceful Europe unmarred by perpetual Russian barbarity can develop.


46 posted on 02/12/2024 6:10:36 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: marcusmaximus
Scott Ritter spent three years in prison

Thanks to a corrupt legal system, The Biden has escaped prison time because it was determined, he's old and demented.

47 posted on 02/12/2024 6:10:40 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

“but some bureaucrat” - > by some . . .


48 posted on 02/12/2024 6:11:02 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: AndyJackson

So, in losing the argument you try to change the subject by introducing a different irrelevant lie.


49 posted on 02/12/2024 6:11:40 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: marcusmaximus
Buddies


50 posted on 02/12/2024 6:12:54 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: bert
A zelocon is a paleocon zealot

So it's a word/phrase that you made up.

51 posted on 02/12/2024 6:13:07 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: bert
you can’t get past the narrow vision of expense and see the wider vision of investment.

How much more expense are you panning to pad the $34 T US debt - unpayable according to Jamie Diamond? I know I am just focused through a paper towel role on a nigglng little problem of little consequence in the big picture world of Zeeperdom.

52 posted on 02/12/2024 6:13:47 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: JonPreston

Scott Ritter was guilty and didn’t deny it was him in the videos.

The only corruption is that Ritter wasn’t charged the first time he did it. That’s why he did it again and finally was charged.


53 posted on 02/12/2024 6:15:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: bert
The debate here is over the propostion that Hungarians are perverts because the voters ejected a President who pardoned a pervert. My argument - the argument - is that this is a logical fallacy that is incapable of being determined to be true because it is a logical fallacy.

You have done nothing to remedy the fallacy inherent in the proposition.

54 posted on 02/12/2024 6:19:04 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: BlackbirdSST
So it's a word/phrase that you made up.

Yeah, but if you believe in closed borders, defending our most pressing natioanal security threats, fixing our justice system, securing our election process, following the constitution and supporting a strong econoy you are a zelocon. That is a really really really bad thing. Bad Zelocn. Bad!

55 posted on 02/12/2024 6:24:22 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bert
Narrow minded paper towel tube vision promotes Russia and Vladimir Putin.

Narrow minded? Like our bankrupt nation is FUBAR with LGBTQI children, fake elections, and open borders? …and we have no business overthrowing democracies overseas?
56 posted on 02/12/2024 6:24:43 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: AndyJackson

You trolls don’t think the US can walk and chew gum - so you are willing to hand the Russians a gift at any price, including proving to all our allies that we are unreliable and to our enemies that we are a push over.


57 posted on 02/12/2024 6:25:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: bert
By investing in Ukraine, dividends in the form of a peaceful Europe unmarred by perpetual Russian barbarity can develop.

Perhaps wealthy European nations should invest in this endeavor and not debtor nations?
58 posted on 02/12/2024 6:28:47 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: PIF
the US can walk and chew gum

Right now the US can’t even do either/or. Go ahead, point out one pedojoe accomplishment that has made America better.

59 posted on 02/12/2024 6:29:23 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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To: PIF
The argument here is whether or not Hungarian voters are perverts as demonstrated by forcincg out a president who pardoned a pervert.

Apparently this is to be resolved in favor of the proposition that Hungarians are perverts, not the view of the Zelocons here, another reason why "we" are really bad people.

60 posted on 02/12/2024 6:30:45 AM PST by AndyJackson
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