In early December 2011, Ferenc Csák, director of the Hungarian National Gallery since 2010 and critical of the proposed merger of the gallery with the Museum of Fine Arts, called the merge process "[v]ery unprofessional, anti–democratic and short–sighted" and announced that he would resign at the end of 2011.[5] As of 5 March 2012[update], a new director had not been named and the Hungarian National Gallery was being led by Deputy General Director, György Szűcs.[6]