(Reuters) Hungary’s parliament elected Andras Baka, a former head of the Supreme Court, as the country’s next president on Tuesday, a symbolic step in Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s effort to dismantle former premier Viktor Orban’s bastions of power. Baka was elected to the largely ceremonial role with the votes of the governing center-right Tisza party. Members of the opposition Fidesz party did not take part in the election. In a speech after taking the oath of office, Baka criticised the previous government, saying that during Orban’s rule, “one party captured the state”, branches of power were not separate and there was no functioning system of checks and balances. However, he said that the task of building a new future for Hungary “demands both justice and self-restraint” and said that the president’s role was to represent citizens who hold differing views.
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