| Post: | Prosecutor General of Hungary |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of Hungary.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 90px |
| Residence: | Budapest |
| Department: | Office of the Prosecutor General |
| Incumbent: | Péter Polt |
| Incumbentsince: | 13 December 2010 |
| Appointer: | National Assembly on the nomination of the President |
| Termlength: | 9 years |
| Inaugural: | Sándor Kozma |
| Formation: | 1872 |
| Website: | Chief Prosecutor's Office |
The Prosecutor General (Hungarian: Legfőbb ügyész) is the official charged with prosecuting cases at a national level in Hungary. The Prosecutor General is elected by a qualified majority of the parliament to 9-year terms (formerly 6 years), has a fixed office budget, and has no government oversight. The Office of Prosecutor General has evolved into a separate branch of the government of Hungary since 1989.
The independent pillar status of the Hungarian public accuser's office is a unique construction, loosely modeled on the system Portugal introduced after the 1974 victory of the Carnation Revolution. The public accuser (attorney general) body has become the fourth column of Hungarian democracy only in recent times: after communism fell in 1989, the office was made independent by a new clausule XI. of the Constitution. The change was meant to prevent abuse of state power, especially with regards to the use of false accusations against opposition politicians, who may be excluded from elections if locked in protracted or excessively severe court cases.
To prevent the Hungarian accuser's office from neglecting its duties, natural human private persons can submit investigation requests, called "pótmagánvád" directly to the courts, if the accusers' office refuses to do its job. Courts will decide if the allegations have merit and order police to act in lieu of the accuser's office if warranted. In its decision No.42/2005 the Hungarian constitutional court declared that the government does not enjoy such privilege and the state is powerless to further pursue cases if the public accuser refuses to do so.
| Crown Prosecutors | ||||
| No. | Name | Term of Office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sándor Kozma | 1872 | 1896 | |
| 2. | Jenő Hammersberg | 1896 | 1902 | |
| 3. | Ferenc Székely | 1902 | 1910 | |
| 4. | Jenő Pongrácz | 1910 | 1923 | |
| 5. | Ferenc Vargha | 1923 | 1930 | |
| 6. | Lajos Halász | 1930 | ||
| 7. | István Magyar | 1930 | 1934 | |
| 8. | Endre Gáll | 1934 | 1935 | |
| 9. | Ferenc Finkey | 1935 | 1940 | |
| 10. | Zoltán Timkó | 1940 | 1944 | |
| 11. | László Mendelényi | 1944 | ||
| Prosecutors General | ||||
| No. | Name | Term of Office | ||
| 12. | 1945 | 1953 | ||
| 13. | Kálmán Czakó | 1953 | 1955 | |
| 14. | 1955 | 1956 | ||
| 15. | Géza Szénási | 1956 | 1975 | |
| 16. | 1975 | 1990 | ||
| 17. | Kálmán Györgyi | 1990 | 2000 | |
| 18. | 2000 | 2006 | ||
| 19. | Tamás Kovács | 2006 | 2010 | |
| 20. | 2010 | 2019 | ||
| 21. | 2019[1] | Incumbent | ||
The prosecutor's bodies of the Republic of Hungary
The Office of the General Prosecutor is located at the top of the prosecutor's bodies, based in Budapest. Monthly official journal of the Public Prosecutor's Gazette.The attorney general has the direct supervision of:[2]
The criminal deputy attorney general has the direct supervision of:
The Deputy Prosecutor General for civil law and administrative law has the direct supervision of: