Parliament has an exclusive power in electing the country’s president, Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister’s press chief, has told state news agency MTI. Havasi was speaking in the wake of footage released by commercial news channel Hir TV, in which a co-ruling Christian Democrat deputy said it was “impossible” for President János Áder to be re-elected for a second term because Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “would not allow that”. Havasi said “we are not in a position to assist with the interpretation of deputies’ opinions or their eavesdropped conversations”. Radical nationalist Jobbik deputy group leader Gábor Staudt referred to the footage as a “rare honest moment”, and said it was regrettable that it was up to a single person to decide who would be Hungary’s president.
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