In a country long shaped by the consolidating grip of one man's vision, Hungary has turned a symbolic page: parliament has elected Andras Baka — a jurist once cast aside by Viktor Orban — as its new president. The choice, engineered by Prime Minister Peter Magyar following April's decisive electoral shift, carries the weight of historical irony, as a figure exiled from Hungarian public life by the old order now occupies its ceremonial summit. Yet the manner of his arrival — a constitutional amendment used to remove a sitting president early — raises the oldest question of political transformat