BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Laszlo Solyom on Friday
took office as president of Hungary.SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS
The new president is a former chief justice at the
constitutional court, while the post is largely ceremonial, the
president can veto legislation.
That may come in handy since Solyom serves as an opposition
president who narrowly won the vote in June after three election
stages in the parliament. He beat Katalin Szili of the ruling
Socialists, who was blocked by the government's coalition partners.
Solyom, 63, succeeds Ference Madl, a popular leader who
helped Hungary enter the European Union but who had refused to be
nominated for the second term, the German daily Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung reported Friday.
