Hungary’s Péter Magyar says new government could take power at beginning of May

Published on 15/04/2026 - 18:19 GMT+2

Hungary's Prime Minister-designate Péter Magyar said connected Wednesday that the country's president had assured him successful a gathering that his caller authorities could instrumentality powerfulness successful the archetypal week of May, an accelerated timeline for the extremity of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year reign.

Following Magyar and his centre-right Tisza party's landslide triumph successful Sunday’s predetermination successful which it won a two-thirds parliamentary majority, the absorption person has pushed for the transportation of powerfulness to hap arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

Under Hungarian law, the inaugural league of the caller parliament, which indispensable elite a caller premier minister, indispensable hap nary aboriginal than 12 May.

Following a backstage consultation with President Tamás Sulyok connected Wednesday, Magyar told reporters extracurricular the statesmanlike palace successful Budapest that Sulyok had assured him that Magyar would beryllium his nominee for the adjacent premier minister, and that the inaugural league would apt beryllium scheduled for the 6 oregon 7 of May.

"(The president) thinks, and I deliberation everyone thinks, that it's successful the interests of the Hungarian federation that aft specified an overwhelming mandate from the voters, a alteration successful authorities and a alteration of authorities should hap arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," Magyar said.

Magyar has vowed to behaviour a large overhaul of overmuch of Hungary's governmental structure, and to make abstracted ministries for health, biology extortion and acquisition that did not beryllium nether Orbán.

In his archetypal quality connected Hungary's nationalist broadcaster successful astir 2 years connected Wednesday morning, Magyar said his caller authorities would suspend the service's quality programming, which has functioned for years arsenic a mouthpiece for Orbán's Fidesz party, until "conditions are established that are independent, nonsubjective and impartial."

"One of the cardinal elements of our programme is that this mill of lies volition travel to an extremity erstwhile the Tisza authorities is formed," helium told the host.

Magyar has called connected Orbán's authorities to enactment arsenic a caretaker successful its last weeks and not to marque immoderate decisions that could endanger Hungary's interests oregon impede the incoming government's work.

He said helium had asked the president, who was elected by Orbán's bulk successful parliament, to resign aft the enactment of the caller government, thing Sulyok said helium would "consider."

"I repeated to him that helium is unworthy of embodying the unity of the Hungarian federation and unfit to beryllium the guardian of the law," Magyar said, adding that if Sulyok does not resign, his caller authorities volition marque law changes to region him "along with each the different puppets that the Orbán strategy has installed."

Because Tisza secured a supermajority of two-thirds of seats successful parliament, the caller authorities volition person the powerfulness to alteration the constitution and rotation backmost galore of Orbán's policies.