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Speech by Dr Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, on Courts Day

Honourable Presidents, Honourable Judges, Ladies and Gentlemen!

As a lawyer by profession and, by virtue of my office, as Head of State, I greet you all with love and respect on Courts Day. A special day launched to show our appreciation for the work of the courts, judges and court officials. 
Being a judge and running the court system well is a challenge. It requires competence and responsibility, wisdom and expertise, empathy and precision. 

Welcome speech delivered by Dr. Tamás Sulyok at the oath-taking ceremony for the Hungarian Olympians leaving for Paris

Dear Hungarian Olympic Team!
Ladies and Gentlemen!

It is a celebration for the whole nation when a Hungarian athlete achieves excellent success with an Olympic performance. The Olympics is the pinnacle of competitions. 

It is when the most beautiful chapters in our sporting history are written. These chapters are written by those who take the lead at the finish line, who break records, who step up to the podium, those in whose honour the Hungarian national anthem is played.

Speech by Dr. Tamás Sulyok to the Hungarian community in Belgium

Your Excellency, Dear MEPs, Ladies and Gentlemen. Dear Fellow Citizens!

Releases

Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, at the Three Seas Initiative Summit

Every year, the Three Seas Initiative (TSI) summit and business forum is organised with the participation of 13 countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia and Bulgaria), situated between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas.

Press release on the discussion between President of Hungary Tamás Sulyok and President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog

Tamás Sulyok had a telephone conversation today with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The President of the State of Israel congratulated Tamás Sulyok on his election as President of Hungary. The two Heads of State reviewed the most important bilateral and international political issues. During the exchange of views, the Hungarian President stressed that Hungary is a close ally and best friend of Israel as well as its strategic partner in Europe.

The President of Hungary set the date for the elections

Press release from the Sándor Palace

Today, President Tamás Sulyok, in fulfilment of his constitutional duty, called the election of the members of the European Parliament in Hungary and the general election of local municipality representatives and mayors. 

The first simultaneous elections will take place on 09 June 2024.
 

Events

The votes express the democratic will of the electorate

On 9 June 2024, on the day of the elections to the European Parliament, local governments and of national minority advocates, Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary and his wife cast their votes in Szeged. After the vote, the President said that since there have been free elections in Hungary, his wife Zsuzsa and he have always exercised their right to vote, and again urged his fellow citizens to vote as well.

The President of Hungary received the Head of State of China on an official visit

President of Hungary Tamás Sulyok, accompanied by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, welcomed the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping with military honours in the Lion Courtyard of Buda Castle.

The President of Hungary on the anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession: Hungary does not give up its sovereignty

Hungary does not give up its sovereignty, and believes in the alliance of independent nation states in Europe, which the founding treaties currently guarantee – the President of Hungary said in Brdo pri Kranj in Slovenia on Monday.

Interviews

Exclusive interview with Dr. Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, for Tények

- Mr. President, thank you for receiving us. On behalf of TV2, we consider it a great honour that you are giving your first major television interview to us.
Thank you for having me on your show, and a warm welcome to our viewers.

My meetings in Békés were highly rewarding - Interview with Katalin Novák

I found my meetings in Békés very rewarding, and I trust that I was not the only one who felt this way - said Katalin Novák, President of Hungary, in an interview with our newspaper - the Békés Megyei Hírlap - about the three days she spent in our county at the end of January. During our conversation, we discussed how to motivate young people to settle in the region, spoke about the war in Ukraine and this year's elections, and why she declared 2024 the Year of Getting Active.

CNBC interview with Katalin Novák

That I'm here for the first time, I experienced that it is, let's say, a constructive chaos, what we experience here, and also what the traffic is concerned, it's very difficult to get from one place to the other, but I have to assure you that the Swiss trains are on time. I took the train and it worked perfectly.

I came, I got the train as well.

Previous News

Day of National Unity (Sátoraljaújhely, 4 June, 2022)

"What does being Hungarian mean to you? It's like asking a fish what water means to it." This is how Professor Mihály Csíkszentmihályi answered this question.

Dear Celebrating Audience! Dear young people from Transylvania, the Highlands, the Southland, Transcarpathia and Hungary!

Many of us would answer, perhaps many of you would answer this question in the same way. What does being Hungarian mean to you? It is like asking a fish what water means to it. Because how do you put into words what it means to be Hungarian for us? How can we express the obvious in words?

Katalin Novák congratulated Queen Elizabeth II on her platinum jubilee

On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, her platinum jubilee, I sent a congratulatory message to Her Majesty the Queen.

Celebratory speech for the unveiling of the statue of Gábor Bethlen

Gyulafehérvár / Alba Iulia (Romania)

Dear Celebrating Audience!

We are here because Gábor Bethlen is not forgotten and we do not wish to forget him in the future, either. He created lasting value in Transylvania at a time when others destroyed, made war and took what belonged to others.

Celebratory speech at the opening ceremony of the “Transylvania Region” exhibit in the Village Museum of Szentendre

Szentendre (Hungary)

In the 1980s, long before the Regime Change, a tradition evolved. Hungarian tourists in Transylvania who made it as far as the Hargita Mountains had a pine branch tucked into the grill of their car, above the licence plate. This is how they let others know where they had been. They thought it important to signal to their compatriots in Transylvania and Hungary that they had visited Transylvania. It was important for them to make this trip and communicate this to others.

Meeting with the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda

Press statement - Warsaw, 17 May 2022

Dzień dobry! Good morning to you all!

Presidential inaugural speech

My Compatriots, dear Guests, 

I have arrived here today with gratitude in my heart. 

I am grateful to have here with me the young and old of our family, and that I can address you with them around me. I am also grateful that we are together in such numbers! I salute all the Hungarians in the world, also those who are following us with watchful affection from afar.  

Invitation to the inauguration ceremony of the President of Hungary


2022. MÁJUS 14., SZOMBAT

Let's celebrate together the inauguration of the new President of Hungary!
We welcome all those interested to the ceremony with military honours.

PROGRAM

ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE

08.30: Kálvin Square Reformed Church

CEREMONY AT KOSSUTH SQUARE

Presidental election

He gets up, takes the children to nursery and school, earns the daily bread, studies, worries about the sick and the safety of his family. At most, he learns from the evening news that Hungary will have a new president. Today it is through you, the democratically elected members of parliament with the power to decide, that the country elects a new head of state.

Day of Hungarian culture

Day of Hungarian culture

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