Katalin Novák

The native form of this personal name is Veresné Novák Katalin Éva. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Katalin Novák
Novák in 2023
6th President of Hungary
In office
10 May 2022 – 26 February 2024
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byJános Áder
Succeeded byTamás Sulyok
Minister for Family Affairs
In office
1 October 2020 – 31 December 2021
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the National Assembly
In office
8 May 2018 – 1 May 2022
Personal details
Born
Katalin Éva Novák

(1977-09-06) 6 September 1977 (age 47)
Szeged, Hungary
Political partyFidesz
SpouseIstván Veres
Children3
EducationCorvinus University of Budapest (MSc)
University of Szeged (JD)

Katalin Éva Veresné Novák[1] (Hungarian: [ˈkɒtɒlin ˈnovaːk], born 6 September 1977) is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44, she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post. Prior to her presidency, she had been a member of the National Assembly for Fidesz from 2018 to 2022, during which time she had also served as Minister for Family Affairs in the fourth Orbán government, from 2020 to 2021.

In early 2024, Novák became embroiled in—and eventually resigned due to—a scandal involving her April 2023 presidential pardon of Endre Kónya, a former deputy director of an orphanage in Bicske who had been imprisoned due to his involvement in a pedophilia case implicating the orphanage's director.[2]

Education

After completing her secondary education at the Ságvári Endre Secondary School [hu] at Szeged in 1996, Novák studied economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest and law at the University of Szeged. While a student, she also studied abroad at the Paris Nanterre University. In addition to her native Hungarian, Novák speaks French, English, German, and Spanish.[3][4]

Political career

Novák with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília, 20 June 2022

Novák began working at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001, specializing in European Union and European matters. In 2010, she became a ministerial advisor. and was appointed Head of Cabinet of the Ministry of Human Resources in 2012.[3]

In 2014 she became State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities, eventually becoming Minister of Family Affairs in October 2020. She held this position until December 2021.

She served as Vice President of Fidesz between 2017 and 2021.[5]

On 21 December 2021, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that Novák would be Fidesz's nominee in the 2022 presidential election.[6] On 10 March 2022, she won gaining 137 out of 188 votes in the National Assembly.[7] Novák is the first woman to hold the office of president in its history.

Presidency

Novák with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Rome, 31 January 2023
Novák with North Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski in Skopje, 6 February 2023
Novák with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, 5 November 2023

In April 2023, the National Assembly passed a bill enabling and encouraging citizens to report same-sex couples who raise children to the state authorities, such as police and child protection.[8] Novák vetoed the bill, and formally prevented it from becoming enacted into law.[9] In May 2022, she condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[10]

In the context of the 2023 Israel-Gaza war, she condemned Hamas' attack on Israel and expressed her support for the latter's right to self-defence. On 5 November 2023, Novák visited Israel to express solidarity with the country.[11]

Pardon affair and resignation

Further information: Katalin Novák presidential pardon scandal

In April 2023, prior to and in commemoration of Pope Francis's pastoral visit to Hungary, Novák issued a series of presidential pardons, including that of far-right activist and domestic terrorist György Budaházy[12] and Endre Kónya. Kónya had been the deputy director of an orphanage in Bicske who had been convicted of covering up the director's molesting of children at the institution. When Kónya's pardon—later thought to have been issued under pressure from Zoltán Balog, Novák's erstwhile mentor and synodal president of the Hungarian Reformed Church[13]—was made public on 2 February 2024, national controversy ensued, becoming known as the "pardon affair" (Hungarian: kegyelmi ügy).[14] Protests erupted in Budapest demanding Novák's resignation,[15] with commentators viewing the scandal as especially damaging to Fidesz's credibility as a defender of traditional family values.

On 9 February, Novák cut short her attendance at the World Water Polo Championships in Qatar and flew home to Budapest, where she announced her resignation shortly after arriving on 10 February.[16] In her resignation address, she also apologized to Kónya's victims.[17] Judit Varga, who was serving as Minister of Justice in 2023 and had countersigned the pardon, also resigned as a member of parliament and withdrew her candidacy for member of the European Parliament in the 2024 election.[18][19][17][20][21] In response, Orbán said that he would introduce a constitutional amendment to bar convicted child abusers from receiving clemency.[22] As part of continued fallout from the scandal, Balog resigned from the synodal presidency of the Hungarian Reformed Church on 16 February 2024.[23]

The National Assembly formally accepted, and thus made Novák's resignation effective, on 26 February 2024.[24][25] She was succeeded in an acting capacity by speaker of the National Assembly László Kövér.[26] She was the second head of state to resign in Hungary's post-communist history after Pál Schmitt, who did so in the wake of a plagiarism scandal in 2012.[27]

Personal life

Novák is married and has three children. Her husband is economist István Veres, director of the Financial Market and Foreign Exchange Market Directorate at the Hungarian National Bank (MNB).[28] She is a Reformed Christian.[29]

Novák is firmly committed to opposing what she calls "gender ideology". She supported a constitutional reform in 2020 to strengthen the ban on adoption by same-sex couples by stating that "the mother is a woman, the father is a man".  The amendments also stipulate that single people will only be able to adopt with the express authorization of the minister, to prevent homosexuals from circumventing the ban. In a video published in 2020, she argues that "women must not always compete with men", or "constantly compare themselves with men by having a similar position and salary to them".[30]

Honours and awards

Domestic

Foreign

Dynastic

References

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