Laszlo Solyom, a legal scholar who helped guide Hungary in its transition to a free-market democracy after the fall of communism in 1989, presiding over his country’s Constitutional Court and then serving as its president from 2005 to 2010, died Sunday in Budapest. He was 81.
A noted legal scholar, he helped lead his country away from Communism after the fall of the Soviet bloc but could not stop its embrace of right-wing populism.