György Barna Senyei

György Barna Senyei was elected by Parliament in December 2019 to head the National Office for the Judiciary, succeeding Tünde Handó, with a pledge to break from her practices. In 2021, however, he personally filed for judicial review against a final court ruling that had found Handó's rejection of judge Csaba Vasvári's promotion application unlawful and unreasoned, acting against his own reform pledge. In December 2023, at a National Judicial Council meeting, he became embroiled in a bitter public dispute with Kúria president András Zs. Varga, who accused Senyei of deeper involvement in the György Schadl corruption affair; Senyei retorted that Varga's 'dream is the complete takeover of the justice system.' The public clash exposed ongoing power struggles at the top of Hungary's judicial administration and tensions around judicial independence. No court has found either official guilty of a crime; the dispute is institutional and political in nature.