March 10th, 2009

Parliament again rejects President’s nominee for Supreme Court chief

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Hungary’s Parliament on Monday rejected for the second time President Laszlo Solyom’s nominee for the Supreme Court president – Maria Orban Havasi.

In a vote of 230 in favour, 123 against and 12 invalid votes, Orban Havasi’s candidacy was rejected in a secret ballot on Monday.

Orban Havasi’s nomination was first rejected by parliament on December 8 last year but Solyom renewed her nomination on January 20, 2009.

Orban Havasi was Solyom’s second choice for the post. His previous nominee — former member of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights Andras Baka — also failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority in Parliament.

The high court has been without a chief justice since June 24, when the six-year term of Zoltan Lomnici expired.

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