{"id":23441,"date":"2026-07-20T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hungarian-pm-to-ask-chess-grandmaster-to-serve-as-president\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:29:53","slug":"hungarian-pm-to-ask-chess-grandmaster-to-serve-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hungarian-pm-to-ask-chess-grandmaster-to-serve-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian PM to ask chess grandmaster to serve as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>BUDAPEST &mdash; Hungary&rsquo;s Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday that he will meet chess grandmaster Judit Polgar on Monday to ask her to serve as the country&rsquo;s new president.<\/p>\n<p>In his Facebook post, Magyar described Polgar as a figure &ldquo;synonymous with talent and perseverance,&rdquo; adding that the country needs &ldquo;unity, peace, and a president of whom every Hungarian can be proud.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He said the presidency represents &ldquo;the highest form of service,&rdquo; and that he would consider it an honor if Polgar accepted the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Polgar, born in Budapest in 1976, is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and a five-time Chess Olympiad champion.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok on Saturday signed the country&rsquo;s 17th constitutional amendment, triggering the end of his mandate as head of state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Hungarian PM to ask chess grandmaster to serve as president<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST &mdash; Hungary&rsquo;s Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday that he will meet chess grandmaster Judit Polgar on Monday to ask her to serve as the country&rsquo;s new president. In his Facebook post, Magyar described Polgar as a figure &ldquo;synonymous with talent and perseverance,&rdquo; adding that the country needs &ldquo;unity, peace, and a president&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hungarian-pm-to-ask-chess-grandmaster-to-serve-as-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hungarian PM to ask chess grandmaster to serve as president&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}