adminis my duty to leave my position,” Schmitt told parliament.
He later submitted his resignation in writing to the speaker of parliament, Laszlo Kover. In the interests of Hungary and of national unity, I resign from the post of president,” he said in the letter.
Schmitt (69), a former two-time fencing Olympic champion, leaves the mostly ceremonial post less than two years after he took over the presidency in June 2010.
Budapest’s Semmelweis University stripped him of his PhD, but Schmitt clung on, insisting that he could “see no link” between the plagiarism affair and a need for his resignation. — AFP.
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