János Süli

János Süli served as Minister without Portfolio from 2016 to 2022, responsible for the technical direction and coordination of the Paks II nuclear plant expansion, a project built under a 2014 Moscow-signed Hungarian-Russian intergovernmental agreement and led by Rosatom's subsidiary ASE. He resigned his post on 7 September 2022; a presidential decree published in the official gazette stated only that his mandate ended "in view of his resignation," and he told ATV by phone: "It wasn't the two ministers' criticism that made me resign, that criticism didn't get to me" — without disclosing the actual reason. According to hvg.hu's analysis, his departure was the second mysterious leadership change atop the project: his predecessor Attila Aszódi had been dismissed in 2019 for unexplained reasons, and the head of Hungary's nuclear safety authority resigned without explanation in April 2021. The article also documented that the Paks II project was running significantly behind its original schedule, and that Rosatom had only managed — after years of delay — to produce plan documentation the regulator could conditionally accept. Süli's tenure illustrates the pattern in which the Hungarian government built a strategic partnership with a Russian state nuclear company while the project's leadership cycled through repeated, unexplained personnel changes and serious delays.