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Hungary has new President
The Hungarian parliament chose on Wednesday Janos Ader, a European Parliament lawmaker, to be the country's next president.
Janos Ader, was elected to a five-year term by a vote of 262-40. Ader, who is a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor, replaces Pal Schmitt, who resigned last month after Hungary's Semmelweis University stripped him of his doctoral degree over charges that he had plagiarized his 1992 thesis.
Ader, 52, becomes Hungary's youngest president since the fall of communism in 1989. He is also the first president to take office under Hungary's new Constitution, which took effect Jan. 1.
