Tamás Sulyok is the current president of the Constitutional Court and has been nominated for head of state.
Sulyok was born on March 24, 1956, in Kiskunfélegyháza. In 1980, he graduated from the Faculty of Public Sciences and Law of the József Attila University of Szeged. In 2004, he gained a qualification in European law from Budapest’s ELTE University and obtained a PhD from Szeged University in 2013, his thesis being on the constitutional status of the legal profession, the regulation of the internal market of the European Community and the connections between legal services. Between 1997 and 2014 he headed a private legal practice, and from 2000 until he was elected a constitutional judge in 2014 he was the honorary consul of Austria in Szeged. Since September 2005, he has taught constitutional law as a visiting lecturer at Szeged University. He was deputy president of the Constitutional Court from April 2015 and in November 2016 parliament elected him as the court’s president.