Members
The Hungarian Constitution declares that members of the Constitutional Court shall be elected by Parliament. It also determines the rules of such elections. Impartiality is guaranteed by having proposed members of the Constitutional Court to be put forward by a nominating committee consisting of one member each from the factions of parties represented in Parliament and shall be elected by a two-thirds majority of all Members of Parliament. Hungarian law provides that only jurists of outstanding theoretical knowledge or having at least twenty years of legal practice may be elected members of the Constitutional Court. Membership is for a term of nine years and members may be re-elected once. The office of judges of the Constitutional Court comes to an end when they reach the age of 70 years.
The current composition of the court includes the following judges:
- Péter Paczolay, President of the Constitutional Court
- András Holló, Vice President of the Constitutional Court
- Elemér Balogh
- András Bragyova
- László Kiss
- Péter Kovács
- Barnabás Lenkovics
- Miklós Lévay
- István Stumpf
- Mihály Bihari
The following judges were appointed at September 1, 2011:
- Egon Dienes-Oehm
- Béla Pokol
- Péter Szalay
- Mária Szívós
- István Balsai
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