BREAKING: Former Hungarian President passed away!

László Sólyom, the president of Hungary between 2005-2010, and the first president of the Constitutional Court, died on Sunday, his secretariat told MTI.

Sólyom died “after a long illness which he bore with great strength, activity and serenity,” the secretariat said in a statement. “May God rest László Sólyom in peace,” President Katalin Novák said in a statement. László Sólyom was an internationally recognised lawyer who as first president of the Constitutional Court had a decisive role in the regime change, and in the establishment of democracy and the constitutional framework that defines our lives, Novák said.

“I am grateful that he shared his experiences with me,” she said. Novák said that the national flag was lowered to half-mast at the presidential Sándor Palace in Sólyom’s memory.

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