Hungary elects Orban Loyalist as nation’s first female President

Country’s first female president was elected

Hungarian lawmakers elected Katalin Novak, a former minister in Viktor Orban’s cabinet, as the country’s first female president, Qazet.az reports citing Bloomberg.

Novak, 44, was elected for a five-year term on Thursday with the required two-thirds majority of parliamentary votes, an expected result as Orban’s lawmakers wield a legislative supermajority.