The ombudsman institution in Hungary

The aim of this article is to introduce non-Hungarian readers into the regulation of the Hungarian ombudsman institution, i.e., the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights. In Hungary, the office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights was created in order to control the activity of public administration bodies. However, it fulfills its task through the protection of fundamental rights, which means that it combines the functions of legal protection and public administration control. In this way, it can be classified as belonging to the mixed or hybrid model, called by some an ombudsman of human rights. This article tracks the regulation of this institution from its appearance to its current state. It will be made clear that the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights has numerous tasks, which makes it one of the institutions that can be considered as guarantees for the rule of law.