Zsolt Andras Varga nominated as president of Kuria

Zsolt Andras Varga has been nominated to serve as president of the Kuria, Hungary's supreme court, by President Janos Ader. Varga has accepted the nomination and will succeed Peter Darak as head of the Kuria effective Jan. 1, 2021, according to a document on parliament's website. The president of the Kuria is elected by parliament in a secret ballot for a nine-year term. Varga worked at several prosecutor's offices in Budapest before joining the Parliamentary Commissioner's Office. He later became a member of the Venice Commission and served as a constitutional judge from 2014. Between 2017 and 2019 he was vice-chair of the Venice Commission's subcommittee for international law, and later the subcommittee for constitutional law. Varga is also a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.