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    Crisis builds around Hungary's president after she issued a pardon in a child sexual abuse case

    by Justin Spike Feb 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    Calls for Hungary's conservative president to resign grew on Friday amid outrage over her pardoning of a person convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the country's long-serving nationalist government.

    Katalin Novák, the first female president in Hungary's history, sparked indignation after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon in April 2023 to a man convicted of hiding

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