President of Hungary Katalin Nowakvery close to the ultranationalist prime minister Victor Orbanannounced his resignation this Saturday after a week of controversy over forgive which he provided executive from the orphanage who tried it hide cases of pedophilia.

“I apologize to those I have offended. Today I speak to you for the last time as President. I am leaving my position,” Novak said in a televised address after returning early from a visit to Qatar.

The head of state, a former minister of family affairs, admitted that “made a mistake” pardoning the deputy director of the orphanage, whose director abused several minors over the course of many years.

Controversial pardon granted in April 2023 on the occasion of the visit Pope Francis in Budapestwas discovered by the press last week.

Since then, opposition political parties and organizations They called for the president’s resignation deeming the pardon “unacceptable.”

Office of the President of Hungary especially representational attributesalthough this also includes the signing of pardons for prisoners at the proposal of the government.

(EFE)