New Delhi, June 3 -- Hungary's government will amend the constitution to remove the country's president, part of a push by the new Prime Minister Peter Magyar to eliminate officials appointed under former populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Magyar and his Tizsa party won an overwhelming victory in an election in April. With a two-thirds majority in parliament, they can make sweeping changes to the autocratic political system Orban built over his 16 years in power.

Since his election victory, Magyar has repeatedly called on President Tamas Sulyok, appointed by Orban's party, to resign or be removed by constitutional means. Magyar had given Sulyok, whom he repeatedly referred to as "Orban's puppet," a May 31 deadline to leave office.

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