India, Aug. 13 -- Hungary's Parliament elected former Supreme Court chief justice Andras Baka as president as the country's new Government dismantles power structures left behind by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Lawmakers with the governing Tisza party elected Baka in a secret ballot with 140 votes for and six votes against, with no abstentions, while Orban's far-right Fidesz party boycotted the vote.

Baka is expected to be sworn in on August 19. The role of president in Hungary is largely ceremonial, though the president does have the power to send bills back to lawmakers or to the Constitutional Court for review. Prime Minister Peter Magyar's Government has argued that the purge of officials appointed during Orban's time in offi...