A close ally of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has resigned as the country’s president after becoming embroiled in a public row over a controversial pardon she issued to a convicted criminal.
Katalin Novák, a stalwart of Orbán’s rightwing Fidesz party, is a former family affairs minister and was among the more hawkish voices in Hungary’s conservative movement.
Last week it emerged that she had pardoned a man who had been convicted as an accomplice for helping cover up a sex abuse case in a children’s home.
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